How your Virginia paycheck is calculated
Every $100 you earn in Virginia
- Take-home pay$77
- Federal income tax$10
- Social Security & Medicare$8
- State income tax$5
$75,000 salary, single filer, 2026.
A Virginia paycheck has four tax lines: federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Virginia income tax. The calculator works out a full year of each from the 2026 rules and divides by your number of paychecks; tap any line to see the arithmetic and the official source.
Virginia starts from your federal adjusted gross income, so 401(k) contributions, pre-tax health premiums and HSA contributions lower your Virginia tax too. It then subtracts its own standard deduction ($8,750 single, $17,500 joint) and $930 for each person on the return, and taxes the rest on a four-step schedule.
Virginia take-home pay at common salaries
The table runs the calculator for a single filer with no pre-tax deductions in 2026. The chart shows how the share you keep changes as pay rises.
| Salary | Take-home per year | Every two weeks | Total tax rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| $30,000 | $25,374 | $976 | 15.4% |
| $40,000 | $32,834 | $1,263 | 17.9% |
| $50,000 | $40,294 | $1,550 | 19.4% |
| $60,000 | $47,754 | $1,837 | 20.4% |
| $75,000 | $58,094 | $2,234 | 22.5% |
| $100,000 | $74,244 | $2,856 | 25.8% |
| $125,000 | $90,330 | $3,474 | 27.7% |
| $150,000 | $105,980 | $4,076 | 29.3% |
| $200,000 | $138,241 | $5,317 | 30.9% |
| $250,000 | $169,621 | $6,524 | 32.2% |
Your numbers will differ if you contribute to a 401(k), pay health premiums, file jointly or have children — enter them in the calculator above.
Take-home on a $75,000 salary by state
Reading your Virginia pay stub
Payroll software rarely uses the same names as tax law. Here is how the lines in the breakdown above usually appear on a Virginia pay stub, using a $75,000 salary paid every two weeks.
Virginia rules that change your take-home pay
- Almost everyone pays the top rate. Virginia’s brackets have not been raised for inflation in decades: income above $17,000 of taxable income is taxed at 5.75%. Below that the tax is a fixed $720 in total, so for most full-time workers Virginia works like a flat 5.75% tax with a small discount.
- No head-of-household deduction. Virginia has no separate head-of-household status for the standard deduction; single parents get the single amount, $8,750, plus $930 for each dependent.
- Extra for 65+ and blindness. Each box adds a $800 exemption — enter people 65 or older under the calculator’s extra options.
- The standard deduction is changing. Virginia Tax says the $8,750 / $17,500 amounts apply for Tax Year 2026 and that the deduction increases beginning with Tax Year 2027. Until the new amount is published, the calculator uses the 2026 figures for both years and says so.
Why your real paycheck can differ
Employers withhold Virginia tax from the exemptions you claim on Form VA-4. Claiming fewer exemptions than you are entitled to, asking for extra withholding, or a second job will make each check differ from this annual estimate. Bonuses are withheld at the same Virginia rates, but federal tax on a bonus is often withheld at a flat 22%.
2027 Virginia paycheck
Switch the tax year to 2027 to use the new federal brackets, standard deduction and Social Security wage base. Virginia Tax has said the standard deduction rises for Tax Year 2027 but has not published the amount. Until they are out, the Virginia lines use 2026 figures and the calculator says so above the breakdown. We update the page the day the official numbers are published — see the data changelog.