Michigan paycheck calculator

Take-home pay in Michigan after federal and Michigan income tax, Social Security, Medicare and your deductions, using the 2026 withholding rules.

State you live and work in

2026 rules for Michigan.

City or county tax

Only if you live (or work) where it applies.

Pay

I'm paid

Salary (per year, before taxes)

How often you're paid

Your Form W-4

Filing status

Children under 17

$2,200 each in Step 3, if your income is $200,000 or less ($400,000 married filing jointly).

Other dependents

$500 each in Step 3.

Pre-tax and after-tax deductions

401(k) or 403(b) contribution

Traditional (pre-tax). Put a Roth contribution under after-tax deductions.

Health insurance, HSA and FSA

Pre-tax premiums and contributions through payroll; they also lower Social Security and Medicare.

After-tax deductions

Roth 401(k), union dues, garnishments.

More Form W-4 options

Step 2: two jobs, or married and your spouse works

Only if you checked the box in Step 2(c) of your W-4.

Step 4(a): other income (per year)

Step 4(b): deductions (per year)

From the W-4's Deductions Worksheet: tips, overtime, car loan interest, the senior deduction, itemizing.

Step 4(c): extra withholding

Take-home pay per paycheck

$1,849.64

$48,090.61 a year from $59,999.94 gross, 26 paychecks.

Gross pay, each deduction and take-home pay, per paycheck and per year
Item	Per paycheck	Per year
Gross pay	$2,307.69	$59,999.94
Federal income tax	−$193.08	−$5,020.08
Social Security	−$143.08	−$3,720.00
Medicare	−$33.46	−$870.00
Michigan income tax	−$88.43	−$2,299.25
Take-home pay	$1,849.64	$48,090.61

Taxes as a share of pay: 19.8%
Federal taxable wages (year): $59,999.94

Estimates for planning, not tax advice. Your employer's payroll may round differently, and your tax bill when you file can differ from what's withheld.

How Michigan taxes your paycheck in 2026

Michigan taxes wages at a flat 4.25% in 2026. Withholding first subtracts $5,900 for each exemption you claim on Form MI-W4: yourself, your spouse and each dependent. Twenty-four cities, including Detroit (2.4%) and Grand Rapids (1.5%), also tax the wages of residents and of people who work there. Traditional 401(k) contributions and pre-tax health premiums are not subject to state tax, and there are no employee-paid state payroll taxes.

Income tax rate: 4.25% of taxable wages.

Exemptions: $5,900 for you, $5,900 for a spouse, $5,900 per dependent.
A traditional 401(k) lowers your Michigan taxable wages; pre-tax health premiums do.

City and county taxes

Twenty-four Michigan cities tax income. Residents pay the resident rate on all their wages, wherever they work: 2.4% in Detroit, 2% in Highland Park, 1.5% in Grand Rapids and Saginaw, and 1% in the other cities (Albion, Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Big Rapids, East Lansing, Flint, Grayling, Hamtramck, Hudson, Ionia, Jackson, Lansing, Lapeer, Muskegon, Muskegon Heights, Pontiac, Port Huron, Portland, Springfield and Walker). People who work in one of these cities but live elsewhere pay half the resident rate (1.2% in Detroit) on wages earned there. Each city first subtracts a personal exemption, usually $600 per person.

What this calculator simplifies

We assume Form MI-W4 claims one exemption for you, one for your spouse when married, and one per dependent, $5,900 each. Michigan's special exemptions (for example for a disability) are not included.
City tax is figured at the resident rate. Nonresidents who work in a taxing city pay half the resident rate, only on wages earned there; choose your city only if you live there, or treat the result as an upper limit.
City tax is figured on your W-2 box 1 wages, after traditional 401(k) contributions and pre-tax health premiums, as Michigan's City Income Tax Act and the cities' own instructions direct.
City exemptions ($600 in most cities; $700 Ionia; $750 Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Saginaw, Springfield; $1,000 Hudson, Portland) are subtracted for you, your spouse when married, and one dependent for head of household. Other dependents' city exemptions are not, so city tax is a little too high for each of them (about $6 to $14 a year per dependent).
City figures come from each city's 2025 returns and guides (Detroit's 2026 guide; some 2026 estimate forms); no city announced a change for 2026. We couldn't confirm Grayling's, Ionia's, Jackson's or Muskegon Heights' rates from a city document, so they use the standard 1% resident rate set by Michigan's Uniform City Income Tax Ordinance; Portland's $1,000 and Saginaw's $750 exemptions rest on older or partial city documents.
If you live in one taxing city and work in another, the work city's nonresident tax is withheld and you get credit for it at home (Detroit withholds 2.4% minus the other city's nonresident rate). The calculator does not split it this way, but the total is about the same.
This is withholding, not your final tax: Michigan's homestead property tax credit, earned income tax credit and other credits are not reflected.

Sources

How every number is worked out is on the methodology page.