Income & Payroll

These pages turn a gross figure into the number that reaches a bank account: federal brackets, FICA, state tax where the page collects it, then hourly, overtime and raise variants of the same arithmetic.

Where a rate table is year-stamped, the page names the year it is using instead of quietly assuming a future one, and it prints the withholding assumptions so a paycheck can be checked rather than believed.

Salaried and self-employed income are not the same calculation, and the pages keep them apart: an employee pays half of FICA with an employer covering the rest, while the self-employed figure has to cover both halves and then deducts part of the total.

Every calculator in this category runs entirely in your browser and is an estimate tool, not financial, tax or legal advice - no figure here is a promise of what an employer, the IRS or a court will do.