Tennessee Paycheck Calculator

Three tax lines come out of a Tennessee paycheck: federal income tax, Social Security (6.2% up to $184,500), and Medicare (1.45%). Tennessee collects no state income tax on wages, and no Tennessee city or county adds one. Anything else on your stub is your own election: 401(k), health premiums, HSA, and similar benefits.

The Hall income tax, which applied to interest and dividends, ended January 1, 2021, so Tennessee now has no individual income tax of any kind. Unemployment premiums are paid by employers on the first $7,000 of each worker's wages, and Tennessee has no employee payroll deduction, so the state adds no line to your stub.

Tennessee has no reciprocity agreements. Residents who work in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, North Carolina, or Virginia have that state's nonresident tax withheld on wages earned there, with no Tennessee income tax to credit it against; use that state's calculator for those wages. A bonus paid on its own is withheld at the 22% federal flat rate with no Tennessee line.