2026 North Dakota paycheck calculator
North Dakota's first slice of pay is taxed at zero, and only two rates, 1.95 and 2.5 percent, follow.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,289.10
per paycheck, paid every two weeks
- Gross pay
- $1,500.00
- Federal income tax
- $96.15
- Social Security
- $93.00
- Medicare
- $21.75
- County tax
- Choose your county
- Take-home
- $1,289.10
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Take-home pay $1,289.10
North Dakota pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | Rates rise with pay Source |
| County or local tax | None Source |
| Disability or paid leave | None Source |
| Minimum wage | $7.25 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $4.86 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | By the regular payday set in advance for the period worked; after a discharge, the employer pays by certified mail to an address the worker names, or as both agree. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | By the regular payday set in advance for the period worked. Source |
What comes out of a North Dakota paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a North Dakota worker keeps $1,289.10.
For most North Dakota workers the state takes very little. The Tax Commissioner's withholding booklet uses a table that taxes the first slice of yearly wages at zero. A single worker pays nothing on the first $57,625, and 1.95 percent applies above that until $258,450, where the rate rises to 2.5 percent. The married table starts taxing at $57,500 and reaches 2.5 percent at $168,525. The head of household table starts at $78,475 and reaches 2.5 percent at $289,675. Many workers see little or no North Dakota tax on a paycheck.
North Dakota has no withholding form of its own. The employer uses the filing status from Step 1(c) of your federal W-4 and nothing else. Dependents and other W-4 entries do not change the result, and a new hire with no W-4 is treated as single.
The method is short. The employer scales a paycheck to a year of wages, finds the annual tax in the table for your filing status, and divides it back by the number of paychecks. The annual tax keeps its cents, and the per-period amount rounds to the nearest dollar. North Dakota does not subtract federal tax.
One printed example in the booklet is out of date. Its page 46 shows $14 a week for $1,800 of weekly pay, but the 2026 tables give $13, so the calculator follows the 2026 tables. A flat 1.5 percent may be used for supplemental pay identified separately.
County and local taxes
North Dakota's list of taxes a home rule city may levy has no income or wage tax on it, and the county home rule chapter lists none either. The withholding booklet covers state withholding alone. A North Dakota paycheck therefore has no city or county income tax, and the result is whole.
Final pay and the minimum wage
North Dakota's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. State rules allow a tip credit of 33 percent of that, which puts the lowest cash wage at $4.86. That is our arithmetic, $7.25 less the credit, because the state labor department's pages we saved print no dollar amount.
Wages are due by the regular payday set in advance for the period you worked. After a discharge, the employer pays by certified mail to an address you name, or in another way you both agree to.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: North Dakota Office of State Tax Commissioner, 'Income Tax Withholding Rates & Instructions for wages paid in 2026' (form 28216, 12/2025), Section 2, page 45, Annual Percentage Method Tables (tax.nd.gov/sites/www/files/documents/forms/individual/2026-iit/2026-income-tax-withholding-rates-booklet.pdf, saved as data/sources/north-dakota/2026-income-tax-withholding-rates-booklet.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026).
Local taxes: N.D.C.C. 40-05.1-06(5) (ndlegis.gov, saved as data/sources/north-dakota/ndcc-t40c05-1.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026) lists the taxes a home rule city may levy: 'excises, fees, charges, franchise and license taxes, sales and use taxes, farm machinery gross receipts taxes, alcoholic beverage gross receipts taxes, a city lodging tax, and a city restaurant tax', and adds that 'Ordinances enacted after August 1, 2017, may not allow for the collection and levy of any tax not otherwise specified under this section.' No income or wage tax is on the list. The county home rule chapter, N.D.C.C. 11-09.1 (saved as data/sources/north-dakota/ndcc-t11c09-1.pdf), likewise lists no income tax. The 2026 withholding booklet covers state withholding only.
Disability and paid leave: North Dakota has no state disability or paid-family-leave insurance program funded by a worker payroll deduction: no North Dakota statute creates one, and the 2026 withholding booklet and the Department of Labor and Human Rights site (nd.gov/labor, checked Oct 29, 2026) mention none.
Minimum wage: N.D.C.C. 34-06-22(1)(c) (ndlegis.gov, saved as data/sources/north-dakota/ndcc-t34c06.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026): 'Effective July 24, 2009, a wage of at least seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hour.' No change is scheduled. Tipped wage: N.D. Admin. Code 46-02-07-03(1) (saved as data/sources/north-dakota/ndac-46-02-07.pdf): 'A tip credit of thirty-three percent of the minimum wage may be allowed for tipped employees,' so the lowest cash wage is $7.25 less 33 percent ($2.3925), which is $4.86 when rounded up to the next cent (computed here; the rule states the percentage, not the dollar figure).
Final paycheck: N.D.C.C. 34-14-03 (ndlegis.gov, saved as data/sources/north-dakota/ndcc-t34c14.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026): 'Whenever an employee is discharged or terminated from employment by an employer, separates from employment voluntarily, or is suspended from work as the result of an industrial dispute, the employee's unpaid wages or compensation becomes due and payable at the regular paydays established in advance by the employer for the periods worked by the employee. When an employer discharges or terminates an employee, the employer shall pay those wages to the employee by certified mail at an address designated by the employee or as otherwise agreed upon by both parties.'
Federal withholding: IRS Publication 15-T (2026), Worksheet 1A and its "2026 Percentage Method Tables for Automated Payroll Systems and Withholding on Periodic Payments of Pensions and Annuities," pages 10 to 12. Fetched directly from irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf and transcribed Oct 28, 2026.
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