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Arizona
Arizona paycheck calculator
Arizona taxes wages at 2.5%. The awkward part is the deduction. The Tax Foundation’s 2026 table shows $8,350 single and $16,700 joint, because some states that point at the federal standard deduction are still tied to a pre-OBBBA version of the code. If Arizona has since conformed to the higher federal amounts, $16,100 and $32,200, this state line runs high. The page says so on the stub rather than quietly picking the friendlier number.
There is no personal exemption in the table, and dependent relief is a small credit, applied when you enter a count. Phoenix, Tucson, and the other large cities do not add a wage income tax here. Federal tax and FICA remain the main withholdings on a typical salary.
Use the result as a planning range. A 2.5% state is hard to get wildly wrong; a doubled deduction changes the bill by a couple hundred dollars, not by a different kind of tax. The methodology lists this conformity gap with the other estimated pieces.
Example take-home
| Salary | Federal | FICA | State | Payroll | Local | Net / year | Net / check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $40,000.00 | $2,620.00 | $3,060.00 | $791.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $33,528.75 | $1,289.57 |
| $60,000.00 | $5,020.00 | $4,590.00 | $1,291.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $49,098.75 | $1,888.41 |
| $80,000.00 | $8,770.00 | $6,120.00 | $1,791.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $63,318.75 | $2,435.33 |
| $100,000.00 | $13,170.00 | $7,650.00 | $2,291.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $76,888.75 | $2,957.25 |
| $150,000.00 | $24,734.00 | $11,475.00 | $3,541.25 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $110,249.75 | $4,240.38 |
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What this page includes
- Federal income tax using the 2026 standard deduction and Rev. Proc. 2025-32 brackets
- Social Security (6.2% up to $184,500) and Medicare (1.45%, plus Additional Medicare when wages clear the filing-status threshold)
- Arizona: flat state income tax at 2.5%
- No employee state disability / paid-leave premium modeled for this state yet
- Local wage tax only if you select a city/county or enter a custom percent
Local tax
Arizona does not have a local wage tax in this file. City costs show up in rent and sales tax, not as a second income-tax line on the stub.
What is not included
Credits, itemized deductions, multi-state credits, property tax, sales tax, and unsourced local rates are not included. Employer payroll tables can differ from this annualized estimate. This Arizona page does not invent taxes that are missing from the 2026 data files.
Questions
Is Arizona a flat tax?
Yes. 2.5% of taxable wages in this model.
Why might the Arizona line be too high?
The standard deduction used here is the smaller pre-OBBBA conformity figure. A law adopting the higher federal deduction would lower the tax.
Does Phoenix tax wages?
Not in this calculator. Add a custom percent only if you have a real local wage tax.
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Sources
- IRS newsroom, tax year 2026 inflation adjustments (Rev. Proc. 2025-32)
- Rev. Proc. 2025-32 (PDF)
- Tax Foundation, 2026 federal income tax brackets
- IRS Publication 15-T, Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods
- SSA, Contribution and benefit base
- IRS Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer's Tax Guide
- IRS, Questions and answers for the Additional Medicare Tax
- Tax Foundation, State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets, 2026
- IRS, state government websites index
See a rate that looks wrong? The sources and the gaps are public.
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