Georgia Paycheck Calculator 2026

Your pay Annual gross salary

Paid every

Filing status

Before-tax money you set aside

401(k), % of salary

Health premiums, $/year

401(k) money skips income tax but still pays Social Security and Medicare. Health premiums through your employer skip both.

Georgia per Form G-4

Paychecks from January to early May 2026 were legally withheld at 5.19%; the annual liability uses 4.99%, so the over-withheld part comes back at filing.

Click any line to see exactly how it is computed, straight from the official documents.

Law
change

Flat income tax rate ~~5.19%~~→4.99%effective May 11, 2026

HB 463, signed May 11, 2026, retroactive to January 1 - employers apply the new rate to withholding from May 11. Read in GA DOR 2026 Employer's Withholding Tax Guide (rev. June 2026).

The auditor’s desk

Audit your actual pay stub

Type what your stub prints; every line is recomputed from the official 2026 formulas, in your browser only.

Gross pay on the stub

Pay period

Filing status on your W-4

Pre-tax on the stub (401k + health), $

Federal withholding printed

Georgia withholding printed

Social Security (OASDI) printed

Medicare printed

Educational reconciliation, not tax advice. Withholding legitimately varies with your exact W-4 entries; your final bill is set by your return.

The audit report appears here, line by line, stamped.

4.99%

Georgia flat state tax rate in 2026

$15,000

standard deduction, single filer

local wage taxes anywhere in Georgia

Form G-4

the certificate that sets your Georgia withholding

Georgia withholding rates for 2026

Georgia withholds at a flat 4.99% of taxable wages in 2026.

Read from GA DOR 2026 Employer's Withholding Tax Guide (rev. June 2026, PDF read directly) on 2026-08-05. Every figure above is taken from that document; nothing here is our estimate.

The mechanics

Cut in May, effective in January: Georgia's retroactive 4.99%

Georgia's flat tax was supposed to be higher this year - then House Bill 463 arrived in May 2026 and cut the rate to 4.99%, retroactive to January 1. The catch: paychecks from January to early May were legally withheld at the old 5.19%. If that is your case, you have been quietly over-withholding all spring, and the difference comes back at filing.

This calculator applies the 4.99% your return will actually use, not the mixed rates your stubs collected. So for 2026 specifically, expect this page's annual number to land a bit under the sum of your withholdings - a rare case where the calculator being "lower" than your stub means a refund, not an error. Atlanta adds nothing on top: no Georgia city or county taxes wages.

Questions people ask about Georgia paychecks

How much taxes are deducted from a Georgia paycheck in 2026?

Federal income tax and FICA, plus Georgia's flat 4.99% on taxable income - cut retroactively from 5.19% in May 2026. Type your salary above for the exact per-paycheck breakdown.

Why was my Georgia withholding higher early in 2026?

Paychecks from January to early May were withheld at the old 5.19% rate, before HB 463 cut the rate retroactively to 4.99%. The over-withheld difference returns as part of your refund at filing.

Does Atlanta charge a city income tax?

No. No Georgia city or county taxes wages - the state's flat rate is the only non-federal line on a Georgia stub.

Dossier · Calceva / 2026 What gets verified, gets filed.

Where these numbers come from

We never copy another calculator. Each rate is read from the official document, dated, and re-checked when agencies publish changes. This page's paper trail:

Verified
2026-08-05

GA DOR 2026 Employer's Withholding Tax Guide (rev. June 2026, PDF read directly) — Flat 4.99% for TY2026 (HB 463 signed 2026-05-11, retroactive to Jan 1; cut from 5.19%). Standard deductions raised to $30,000 MFJ / $15,000 single-HOH-MFS; dependent deduction $5,000. Employers could only start withholding at 4.99% from 2026-05-11.

Verified
2026-08-05

GA DOR Form G-4 — Withholding certificate: Form G-4

Verified
2026-08-05

Georgia Employer's Tax Guide 2026 (revised June 2026) — Withholding (percentage method, Employer's Tax Guide revised June 2026): standard deduction by pay period and filing status, dependent allowance, and the 4.99% rate applied to payrolls on or after 2026-05-11 (HB 463). Implementation reproduces both worked examples (pp. 48-49) to the cent.

Federal
lines

Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare on this page follow IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32, Publication 15 and Publication 15-T, verified 2026-08-07. Our federal engine reproduces 2,175 of 2,175 Publication 15-T cells on every build. The six federal sources, itemised.

Matches
the agency

Reproduces the agency’s own published figures. Our implementation of the Georgia withholding formula reproduces all 2 worked examples of Georgia Employer's Tax Guide 2026 (revised June 2026), Percentage Method exactly as the agency prints them, re-checked on every build. Check them in the official PDF.

Cite this page Calceva, “Georgia Paycheck Calculator (2026),” verified 2026-08-05, https://calceva.com/georgia-paycheck-calculator/

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