2026 Vermont paycheck calculator
Vermont gives a $5,400 allowance for each person you claim, then taxes the rest at 3.35 to 8.75 percent.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Vermont Department of Taxes sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,250.87
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
- $1,250.87
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Vermont 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 | $14.42 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $7.21 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | Within 72 hours of the discharge. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | On the last regular payday, or on the following Friday if there is no regular payday. Source |
What comes out of a Vermont paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a Vermont worker keeps $1,250.87.
Vermont's four rates are 3.35, 6.6, 7.6, and 8.75 percent, and withholding applies them after allowances. Each allowance on Form W-4VT is worth $5,400 a year. The state's tables break that down by pay period, at $103.85 weekly, $207.69 biweekly, $225.00 semimonthly, and $450.00 monthly. Your employer multiplies that by your allowances, subtracts the result from the paycheck, and looks up the tax on what is left.
On the form, you claim one allowance for yourself. A married worker claims another for a spouse who does not work, each dependent adds one, and a head of household adds one more. The form has no head of household status, so that worker checks Single. Civil union partners use the Married table. The calculator treats every married worker as having a spouse who is claimed, and if your spouse works, leaving line 2 blank means more tax comes out than shown here.
For a single weekly paycheck, nothing is taxed up to $75 of what remains after allowances, and 3.35 percent applies above that. A worker who files no W-4VT may be withheld from the federal W-4 instead, which the department warns can under-withhold. Vermont does not subtract federal tax. The state's example works to the cent, and the calculator does too.
Employers may also withhold up to 0.11 percent of wages toward the 0.44 percent Child Care Contribution. That is the employer's choice, not a state deduction on the worker, and optional deductions like it are not computed here.
County and local taxes
Vermont towns may adopt only three local option taxes, each at 1 percent, on sales, on meals and alcohol, and on rooms. The state collects them, and none is a tax on wages. The state's withholding instructions cover state tax alone. A Vermont paycheck holds the state amount and nothing from a town.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Vermont's minimum wage is $14.42 an hour in 2026. Tipped workers must receive a cash wage of at least $7.21. The 2027 rate had not been announced when we checked.
A discharged worker is owed final pay within 72 hours. A worker who quits is paid on the last regular payday, or on the following Friday when there is no regular payday.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Vermont Department of Taxes, '2026 Income Tax Withholding Instructions, Tables, and Charts, GB-1210-2026', effective January 1, 2026, Vermont Percentage Method Withholding Tables (PDF pages 7 and 8) (tax.vermont.gov/sites/tax/files/documents/GB-1210-2026.pdf, saved as data/sources/vermont/GB-1210-2026.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026).
Local taxes: 24 V.S.A. section 138(b) (legislature.vermont.gov, saved as data/sources/vermont/vsa-24-005-00138.html, read Oct 29, 2026) is the only local option tax law, and it allows towns to adopt only 'a one percent sales tax', 'a one percent meals and alcoholic beverages tax', and 'a one percent rooms tax', collected by the state. No local income or wage tax is authorized, and GB-1210-2026 describes state withholding only.
Disability and paid leave: Vermont has no required state disability or paid-leave payroll deduction in 2026. The Vermont Family and Medical Leave Insurance plan is voluntary for private employers: Governor's office, 'Vermont Family and Medical Leave Plan' (governor.vermont.gov/vtfmli, saved as data/sources/vermont/governor-vtfmli.html, read Oct 29, 2026), run with The Hartford, where 'Contributions can be fully paid by the employer, split between the employer and employees, or fully paid for by the employees as a voluntary benefit.' Separately, the Child Care Contribution is a 0.44 percent employer payroll tax that the employer may choose to pass on in part: Vermont Department of Taxes, GB-1326 'The Vermont Child Care Contribution' (October 2024, saved as data/sources/vermont/GB-1326.pdf): 'Employees are not required to file or pay the CCC, but employers may choose to deduct and withhold up to one-quarter of the contribution from employee wages (i.e., not more than 0.11% of any employee's wages).' It funds child care, not leave.
Minimum wage: Vermont Department of Labor news release (labor.vermont.gov, saved as data/sources/vermont/vdol-min-wage-release-2026.html, read Oct 29, 2026): 'Beginning January 1, 2026, the State's minimum wage will increase from $14.01 to $14.42 per hour' and 'the tipped minimum wage will increase from $7.01 to $7.21 per hour' (the basic tipped wage is 50 percent of the full minimum wage). Vermont Department of Labor 2026 minimum wage poster (saved as data/sources/vermont/vdol-min-wage-poster-2026.pdf): basic wage rate for tipped employees $7.21 effective 01/01/26. 21 V.S.A. section 384(a)(1) (saved as data/sources/vermont/vsa-21-005-00384.html): the rate rises each January 1 by 5 percent or the CPI-U increase, whichever is smaller; the 2027 rate had not been announced in the sources checked.
Final paycheck: 21 V.S.A. section 342(b) (legislature.vermont.gov, saved as data/sources/vermont/vsa-21-005-00342.html, read Oct 29, 2026): 'An employee who: (1) voluntarily leaves employment shall be paid on the last regular pay day, or if there is no regular pay day, on the following Friday; (2) is discharged from employment shall be paid within 72 hours of discharge.'
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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