2026 Utah paycheck calculator
Utah withholds 4.45 percent of pay, less a small allowance that fades as your pay rises.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Utah State Tax Commission sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,226.10
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
- $1,226.10
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Take-home pay $1,226.10
Utah pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | Flat rate Source |
| County or local tax | None Source |
| Disability or paid leave | None Source |
| Minimum wage | $7.25 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $2.13 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | Within 24 hours of the time the employer separates the worker from the payroll. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | On the next regular payday, for a worker without a written contract for a set term who resigns. Source |
What comes out of a Utah paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, an Utah worker keeps $1,226.10.
Utah has no withholding form of its own. Your employer reads your federal W-4 for one thing, filing status, and then follows the schedules in the Tax Commission's Publication 14. The figures here are for pay periods that begin on or after June 1, 2026, when the current schedules took over. Pay from earlier in the year used an older revision that we have not saved or checked.
Each paycheck gets the same few steps. The employer takes 4.45 percent of the period's taxable wages, rounded to the whole dollar. Then comes a base allowance that depends on how often you are paid and whether you are single or married. On a weekly check the allowance is $9 for a single worker and $19 for a married one, and on a monthly check it is $40 and $81. The allowance shrinks by 1.3 percent of the wages above a threshold, which is $180 a week for a single worker and $360 for a married worker, and it cannot drop below zero. Whatever the allowance still covers comes off the tax.
Utah subtracts nothing for the allowances or other entries on your W-4, so dependents do not change the result. A head of household uses the single schedule. The publication also prints wage-bracket tables that round to the middle of each band and can differ from the schedules by a dollar, so the calculator follows the schedules. Publication 14 does not state a rounding rule in words. Whole-dollar rounding comes from its worked examples, which it matches exactly.
County and local taxes
Utah's withholding guide describes state tax only, with no city or county wage tax and no local column in any schedule. We found no Utah law that allows a local income tax, though we also did not find one that bans it outright. For a Utah worker, the stub carries state tax and nothing local.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Utah follows the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, and the tipped cash wage is $2.13 before tips.
An employer that lets a worker go must pay within 24 hours of taking that worker off the payroll. A worker who resigns is paid on the next regular payday, provided there is no written contract for a set term.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Utah Code 59-10-104 (Effective 1/1/2026), subsection (2): the tax is state taxable income times "4.45%" (le.utah.gov/xcode/Title59/Chapter10/59-10-S104.html, fetched Oct 29, 2026); Utah State Tax Commission Publication 14 (Rev. 4/26), schedules on page 9.
Local taxes: Utah State Tax Commission Publication 14, "Withholding Tax Guide" (Rev. 4/26), page 3, "How Much to Withhold": employers withhold "based on your employee's federal W-4 form and the Utah withholding schedules or tables in this publication"; the publication describes no city or county wage tax. No Utah statute authorizing a local income tax was found (see openQuestions).
Disability and paid leave: Utah runs no state disability or paid family leave program funded by a paycheck deduction; Publication 14 (Rev. 4/26) lists only Utah income tax withholding, and the Utah Labor Commission's wage page (laborcommission.utah.gov/divisions/utah-antidiscrimination-and-labor-uald/wage-claim/, fetched Oct 29, 2026) describes no such deduction.
Minimum wage: Utah Labor Commission, "Wage Claim" page (laborcommission.utah.gov/divisions/utah-antidiscrimination-and-labor-uald/wage-claim/, fetched Oct 29, 2026): "The minimum wage in Utah is $7.25 per hour... Tipped employees (adults and minors) may be paid $2.13 per hour, but only so long as the tips they earn, in addition to the base wage paid, combined are equal to or exceed the minimum wage." Utah Administrative Code R610-1-4 (adminrules.utah.gov/Rule/1500, fetched Oct 29, 2026): "An employer has a cash wage obligation of at least $2.13 per hour."
Final paycheck: Utah Code 34-28-5(1)(a) and (2) (le.utah.gov/xcode/Title34/Chapter28/34-28-S5.html, fetched and read Oct 29, 2026).
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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