2026 Virginia paycheck calculator
Virginia's $8,750 standard deduction is scheduled to shrink after 2026, which will likely change 2027 withholding.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Virginia Tax sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,234.18
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
- $1,234.18
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Take-home pay $1,234.18
Virginia 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 | $12.77 an hour. From Jan 1, 2027: $13.75 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $2.13 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | All wages due on or before the date the worker would have been paid for that work had the job not ended (the next regular payday). Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | Same rule: on or before the next regular payday. Source |
What comes out of a Virginia paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, a Virginia worker keeps $1,234.18.
Virginia taxes wages from 2 percent on the first $3,000 of taxable income up to 5.75 percent on income over $17,000, with 3 percent and 5 percent rates in between. Before those rates apply, the formula subtracts an $8,750 standard deduction and $930 for each exemption.
Form VA-4 has no filing status. You claim one exemption for yourself, one for a spouse who is not claimed on their own certificate, and one for each dependent, and each dependent lowers annual Virginia withholding by up to $53.48 at the 5.75 percent rate. The $8,750 figure is the single standard deduction, used for everyone because each spouse files their own VA-4. The employer's guide notes that the higher standard deduction ($8,750 single, $17,500 married filing jointly) is scheduled to sunset after tax year 2026 and revert to $3,000 and $6,000, so the 2027 formula will likely change.
A worker who files no VA-4 is withheld as if they had no exemptions, and bonuses may be withheld at a flat 5.75 percent. The guide's own example rounds the annual tax to the whole dollar before dividing, and the calculator does the same, so a stub can differ by a few cents. Virginia does not subtract federal tax. Paid family and medical leave contributions begin April 1, 2028, so none come out of a 2026 check.
County and local taxes
Virginia sets income aside for the state alone. Under Section 58.1-300 of the Code of Virginia, no county, city, town, or other political subdivision may impose any tax or levy upon incomes.
The state's income tax is therefore the only one on a Virginia pay stub, and the result needs no local amount added.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Virginia's minimum wage is $12.77 an hour in 2026 and rises to $13.75 on January 1, 2027. The $2.13 tipped cash wage is the federal figure, because Virginia lets employers count tips toward the wage but sets no state cash minimum.
Your last check is due no later than the day you would have been paid for that work had the job not ended, the next regular payday, and quitting does not change that.
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Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Virginia Tax, Income Tax Withholding Guide for Employers (2614086 Rev. 10/26), page 21, Formula for Computing Tax to be Withheld, effective for wages paid after July 1, 2025: "(G)P - [$8,750 + (E1 X $930) + (E2 X 800)] = T"; not over $3,000, 2% of T; $3,000 to $5,000, $60 + 3% of the excess; $5,000 to $17,000, $120 + 5% of the excess; over $17,000, $720 + 5.75% of the excess (tax.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/vatax-pdf/employer-withholding-instructions.pdf, saved as data/sources/virginia/employer-withholding-instructions.pdf, read Oct 29, 2026).
Local taxes: Code of Virginia Section 58.1-300, "Incomes not subject to local taxation" (law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title58.1/chapter3/section58.1-300/, saved as data/sources/virginia/va-code-58.1-300.html, read Oct 29, 2026): "No county, city, town or other political subdivision of this Commonwealth shall impose any tax or levy upon incomes, incomes being hereby segregated for state taxation only."
Disability and paid leave: No employee-paid state disability or paid-leave deduction applies in 2026. Virginia's new paid family and medical leave insurance program starts payroll contributions on April 1, 2028, at a rate the state will set by October 1, 2027, and employers may deduct up to half of it from wages: Code of Virginia Section 60.2-806, "Contributions" (2026, cc. 981, 1093) (law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title60.2/chapter8/section60.2-806/, saved as data/sources/virginia/va-code-60.2-806.html, read Oct 29, 2026): "Beginning on April 1, 2028, each employer shall remit to the Fund contributions ... No later than October 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner shall fix the contribution rate"; subsection D: employers of more than 10 employees "deduct from each employee's wages an amount equal to 50 percent, or such lesser percentage ... of the contribution"; subsection E: employers of 10 or fewer deduct 50 percent of the larger-employer contribution and pay nothing more. Chapter index saved as data/sources/virginia/va-code-title60.2-chapter8.html.
Minimum wage: Code of Virginia Section 40.1-28.10 (law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title40.1/chapter3/section40.1-28.10/, saved as data/sources/virginia/va-code-40.1-28.10.html, read Oct 29, 2026), subsection B: "From January 1, 2026, until January 1, 2027, every employer shall pay to each of its employees wages at a rate not less than the greater of (i) $12.77 per hour or (ii) the federal minimum wage"; subsection C: "From January 1, 2027, until January 1, 2028 ... $13.75 per hour"; subsection D: $15.00 from January 1, 2028.
Final paycheck: Code of Virginia Section 40.1-29(B) (law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title40.1/chapter3/section40.1-29/, saved as data/sources/virginia/va-code-40.1-29.html, read Oct 29, 2026): "Upon termination of employment an employee shall be paid all wages due him for work performed prior thereto; such payment shall be made on or before the date on which he would have been paid for such work had his employment not been terminated." The statute does not distinguish quitting from being let go.
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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