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West Virginia take-home pay calculator

What West Virginia withholds on top of federal tax, and what reaches your account.

How West Virginia taxes wages

West Virginia taxes wage income on a bracket schedule. Only the income inside a bracket pays that bracket’s rate.

West Virginia income tax rates for 2026. Rates shown are for a single filer.
FromUp toRate
$0$10,0002.11%
$10,000$25,0002.81%
$25,000$40,0003.16%
$40,000$60,0004.22%
$60,000and above4.58%

How West Virginia treats pre-tax deductions

HSA contributions
Pre-tax, as federally
Traditional 401(k) contributions
Pre-tax, as federally

What else West Virginia withholds

West Virginia withholds no employee-paid programme on top of its income tax.

What this calculator models for West Virginia

Every figure above comes from a published West Virginia document. These are the rules behind those figures that this calculator applies, approximates, or leaves out.

RuleIn this calculator
West Virginia allows local levies charged as a fixed amount rather than as a rate on your pay, and this calculator leaves them out. They come to roughly $156 a year.Not modelled

Sources

Every West Virginia figure on this page is transcribed from the document it links to below, last checked .

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