West Virginia Paycheck Calculator

West Virginia paychecks can include federal withholding, Social Security, Medicare, and West Virginia state income tax. For 2026 planning, West Virginia uses graduated rates ranging from 2.11% to 4.58% for the filing statuses supported by this calculator.

This calculator estimates West Virginia income tax with the updated 2026 brackets, then subtracts federal payroll taxes, pre-tax deductions, post-tax deductions, and other entered paycheck deductions to estimate take-home pay. It is a planning estimate, not a full West Virginia withholding-table recreation.

Actual West Virginia withholding may not exactly match final tax liability because IT-104 setup, payroll frequency, withholding tables, deductions, credits, supplemental pay, resident or nonresident work, and employer payroll settings can all affect real paychecks.

Federal income tax withholding, West Virginia state income tax withholding, Social Security, and Medicare can all reduce a West Virginia paycheck before it reaches your bank account.

Health insurance, traditional 401(k), HSA, and FSA deductions can reduce taxable wages in this estimate. Roth contributions, garnishments, union dues, and certain insurance or benefit deductions may be post-tax, so they usually do not reduce taxable wages but still reduce take-home pay.

Tips and reported tip income, overtime, bonuses, commissions, shift differentials, seasonal schedules, and irregular pay periods can make West Virginia paychecks uneven. Healthcare, energy, mining, natural gas, construction, manufacturing, logistics, trucking, retail, restaurants, hospitality, tourism, education, government, public safety, warehouse, and service jobs often have pay patterns that make one check differ from the next.

Federal W-4 settings, West Virginia IT-104 setup, payroll software, timing differences, benefits, deductions, garnishments, and employer setup can all move the actual number. Employer-side unemployment insurance, workers' compensation costs, business taxes, severance taxes, sales tax, property tax, and other employer obligations are not employee paycheck deductions.

If you are converting a salary to an hourly rate, use the salary to hourly calculator. For extra-hours scenarios, use the overtime calculator. For a raise, promotion, or new offer, the pay raise calculator can help compare the gross-pay side before withholding.

West Virginia changed its personal income tax rates for 2026. The Tax Division says the rate cut was signed March 31, 2026, applies retroactively to January 1, 2026, and uses updated withholding tables for the 2026 tax year.

For the filing statuses supported by this calculator, the 2026 rates range from 2.11% to 4.58%. The current calculator supports single, married filing jointly, and head of household; West Virginia has a separate married-filing-separately table that is not available in the calculator inputs.

West Virginia withholding can apply to wages, salaries, tips, commissions, bonuses, vacation pay, back pay, retroactive wage increases, and other compensation for services. This page estimates employee take-home pay; it does not recreate every withholding table, exemption, credit, deduction, supplemental wage method, resident or nonresident sourcing rule, wage-law calculation, employer payroll tax, business tax, or complete federal or West Virginia tax return.