2026 Ohio paycheck calculator
Ohio's withholding tables changed on August 1, 2026, and cities and school districts can add their own tax.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Ohio Department of Taxation sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,258.92
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
- $1,258.92
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Ohio pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | Rates rise with pay Source |
| County or local tax | Ohio has two kinds of local income tax on wages. City and village income tax: each Ohio city or village may tax wages at its own single rate (any rate above 1 percent needs voter approval unless it was already in place by March 23, 2015); the employer withholds it for the city where the employee works, usually only once the employee has worked more than 20 days in that city in the year unless it is the employee's regular workplace; and a city may, but need not, give its own residents credit for tax paid to the city where they work. Each city collects its own tax, directly or through a collection agency such as RITA, so rates must be looked up city by city. School district income tax: 210 Ohio school districts levied one as of January 2026, each approved by its voters; it is owed by where the employee lives, not where they work, and the employer must withhold it for an employee who lives in a taxing district. A 'traditional' district taxes income after the same exemptions used for state withholding; an 'earned income' district taxes wages at a flat rate with no exemptions. Neither tax is in the state withholding figure this calculator shows. Source |
| Disability or paid leave | None Source |
| Minimum wage | $11.00 an hour. From Jan 1, 2027: $11.40 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $5.50 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | Ohio sets no separate deadline for a final paycheck; the regular payday rule applies: wages earned from the 1st to the 15th of a month are due by the 1st of the next month, and wages earned in the rest of the month by the 15th of the next month (a longer gap set by written contract or customary in the trade is allowed). Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | The same as for an involuntary separation: the final wages are due on the regular payday schedule, no later than the 1st or 15th of the following month as above. Source |
What comes out of a Ohio paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, an Ohio worker keeps $1,258.92.
Ohio's tax for 2026 is nothing on the first $26,050 of income after exemptions, then 2.75 percent of the amount above it plus a fixed $332. Withholding does not copy that schedule. Since August 1, 2026, employers have used the Department of Taxation's own tables at 1.6, 2.99, and 3.4 percent, which replaced rates of 1.775, 2.990, and 3.640 percent used from October 2025. Your withholding can therefore differ from the tax you owe at filing.
Exemptions come from Form IT 4: one for you, one for a spouse when you are married, and one for each dependent. Each exemption lowers the pay that is taxed by $12.50 a week, $25.00 every two weeks, $27.08 twice a month, or $54.17 a month, about $650 a year. If the taxable amount falls to zero, nothing is withheld.
Bonuses are withheld at 2.75 percent. Residents of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia who work in Ohio can file the IT 4 waiver and have no Ohio tax withheld. The Department had not posted 2027 tables when we checked.
County and local taxes
Ohio has two local wage taxes that are not in the result. City and village income tax is set by each city at a single rate, and any rate above 1 percent needs voter approval unless it was in place by March 23, 2015. Your employer withholds it for the city where you work, usually once you have worked more than 20 days there in a year, unless it is your regular workplace. Each city collects its own tax, sometimes through an agency such as RITA, so rates must be looked up city by city.
School district income tax is owed by where you live, not where you work. As of January 2026, 210 districts levy one, each approved by its voters, and your employer must withhold it if you live in a taxing district. A traditional district taxes income after the same exemptions used for state withholding, and an earned income district taxes wages at a flat rate with no exemptions. Neither tax is in the figure shown here, so add them if they apply to you.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Ohio's floor is $11.00 an hour in 2026, and $11.40 an hour takes over on January 1, 2027. Tipped workers get a cash wage of $5.50 an hour.
Ohio sets no separate deadline for a final paycheck, so the regular payday rule applies whether you are let go or you quit. Wages earned from the 1st to the 15th of a month are due by the 1st of the next month, and wages earned in the rest of the month are due by the 15th of the next month. A longer gap is allowed if a written contract sets one or the trade customarily uses one.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Ohio Revised Code 5747.02(A)(3)(c) (effective September 30, 2025, House Bill 96 of the 136th General Assembly; codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-5747.02, read Oct 29, 2026, saved as data/sources/ohio/ORC_5747.02.html): 'If the balance thus obtained is equal to or less than twenty-six thousand fifty dollars, no tax shall be imposed on that balance' and 'For taxable years beginning in 2026 and thereafter, $332.00 plus 2.75% of the amount in excess of $26,050.' The Department of Taxation's own 'Annual Tax Rates' page (tax.ohio.gov/individual/resources/annual-tax-rates, read Oct 29, 2026) still stops at 2025, so the statute is the cited source.
Local taxes: City and village tax: Ohio Revised Code 718.04(C) (uniform rate; above 1 percent only with voter approval, with the March 23, 2015 carry-over in 718.04(B)) and 718.04(D) (resident credit is optional), 718.03(A)(1) (employer withholds for the city where the wages are earned), and 718.011(B)(1) (no withholding for 20 or fewer days in a city unless it is the principal place of work or a presumed worksite), all from codes.ohio.gov, read Oct 29, 2026, saved under data/sources/ohio/ORC_718.*.html; the Ohio Department of Taxation's 'Municipal Sites' list (tax.ohio.gov/business/municipalities/08municipal-income-tax-forms, read Oct 29, 2026) links each city to its own tax office or to RITA. School district tax: Ohio Department of Taxation, 'School District Income Tax' (tax.ohio.gov/individual/school-district-income-tax, read Oct 29, 2026, saved as data/sources/ohio/tax.ohio.gov_individual_school-district-income-tax.html: 'As of January 2026, 210 Ohio school districts have an income tax', 'you only pay school district income taxes based on where you live, not where you work', and the traditional and earned-income definitions); '2026 Ohio Employer and School District Withholding Tax Filing Guidelines' (Rev. 11/25), page 3 (employer must withhold for any employee who resides in a taxing school district; traditional districts use the same wage base and exemptions as state withholding; earned income districts withhold at a flat rate with no exemptions); 'Updated School Districts, Effective January 1, 2026' (Rev. 3/26), saved as data/sources/ohio/School_Districts_2026.pdf.
Disability and paid leave: Ohio has no state short-term disability or paid family leave payroll deduction in 2026: the Ohio Department of Taxation's employer withholding page (tax.ohio.gov/business/employer-withholding, read Oct 29, 2026, saved as data/sources/ohio/tax.ohio.gov_business_employer-withholding.html) lists only Ohio income tax and school district income tax as the state amounts an employer withholds from wages.
Minimum wage: Ohio Department of Commerce, '2026 Minimum Wage' poster (dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/com.ohio.gov/DICO/WageAndHour/2026_Minumum_Wage_Poster.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026, saved as data/sources/ohio/2026_Minimum_Wage_Poster.pdf): $11.00 per hour for non-tipped employees; employers grossing less than $405,000 a year, and employees under 16, may pay the federal $7.25. The 2027 rate is from the Department's '2027 Minimum Wage' poster (same folder, 2027_Minumum_Wage_Poster.pdf, saved as data/sources/ohio/2027_Minimum_Wage_Poster.pdf): $11.40 non-tipped and $5.70 tipped, with the small-employer line raised to $419,000; the January 1 effective date is set by the Ohio Constitution, Article II, Section 34a ('On the thirtieth day of each September ... this state minimum wage rate shall be increased effective the first day of the following January'; codes.ohio.gov/ohio-constitution/section-2.34a, saved as data/sources/ohio/Ohio_Constitution_Art2_Sec34a.html).
Final paycheck: Ohio Revised Code 4113.15(A) (codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4113.15, read Oct 29, 2026, saved as data/sources/ohio/ORC_4113.15.html), which contains no separate rule for separated employees; the Ohio Department of Commerce's 'Ohio Minimum Wage Laws' page (com.ohio.gov, Wage and Hour guides and resources, read Oct 29, 2026, saved as data/sources/ohio/com.ohio.gov_ohio-minimum-wage-laws.html) restates it: 'employers must pay employees at least twice monthly, on or before the 15th and the 30th of each month.'
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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