North Dakota Paycheck Calculator

Four things come out of a North Dakota paycheck: federal income tax, Social Security (6.2% up to $184,500), Medicare (1.45%), and North Dakota income tax. The state has no employee-paid disability or paid-leave premium, so anything else on your stub is your own election, such as 401(k) contributions or health premiums. Pre-tax deductions lower the wages the state formula starts from, which can keep more of your pay inside the 0% band.

The state formula annualizes your pay and runs it through a three-band table keyed to the filing status on your federal W-4. Single filers owe 0% up to $57,625, 1.95% above that, and 2.5% above $258,450. Married filing jointly uses breakpoints of $57,500 and $168,525; head of household uses $78,475 and $289,675. There are no allowances or exemptions to claim and no North Dakota withholding form, so your federal filing status is the only state input.

No North Dakota city or county taxes wages, so the calculator has no local field for this state. That leaves the state income tax line as the only North Dakota deduction, and it is zero for a single filer whose annualized wages stay at or below $57,625. Employers round each period's state withholding to whole dollars, a step this calculator skips, so expect differences of a few cents per paycheck.

Bonuses paid separately from regular wages are withheld at a flat 1.5%, the rate this site's bonus calculator uses for North Dakota. Minnesota and Montana residents who work in North Dakota can file Form NDW-R with their employer to stop North Dakota withholding. For 2026 the bracket thresholds were indexed and the rates stayed the same. Employees still on a pre-2020 federal W-4 fall under an older allowance method that this calculator does not model.