Maine paycheck calculator

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.

Maine per Form W-4ME, Employee's Maine Withholding Allowance Certificate

Maine taxable income starts from federal adjusted gross income with Maine additions and subtractions. The personal exemption is $5,300 per exemption. Above $341,000 of Maine adjusted gross income that exemption itself…

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

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

Maine 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.

5.8-7.15%

three brackets on Maine taxable income

+2%

surcharge above $1,000,000, new for 2026

$5,300

value of one personal exemption

local income taxes anywhere in Maine

Maine withholding rates for 2026

Taxable wages (single filer)	Rate
$0 to $27,400	5.8%
$27,400 to $64,850	6.75%
over $64,850	7.15%

Single-filer standard deduction: $15,700.

Read from Maine Revenue Services, Form 1040ES-ME 2026, p. 2, Tax Rate Schedules (PDF read in full, 6 p., file dated 17 J on 2026-08-09. Every figure above is taken from that document; nothing here is our estimate.

The mechanics

How a Maine paycheck works in 2026

In 2026, Maine applies 5.8-7.15% as its state brackets on taxable wages. What moves your take-home pay most is federal: income tax brackets, Social Security at 6.2% up to the wage cap, and Medicare at 1.45%. This calculator applies the exact official formulas, sourced below.

Questions people ask about Maine paychecks

Does my city take anything extra out of a Maine paycheck?

No. No city or county in Maine adds a wage tax on top of the state and federal lines.

How accurate is this calculator?

It applies the official 2026 formulas from the documents stamped below. Your paycheck withholding can differ based on your W-4 entries, then settles at your tax return.

Is my 401(k) contribution taxed here?

No. Traditional 401(k) contributions come out before income tax. They still pay Social Security and Medicare.

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
2026-08-09

Maine Revenue Services, Form 1040ES-ME 2026, p. 2, Tax Rate Schedules (PDF read in full, 6 p., file dated 17 July 2026) — 2026 rate schedule, three brackets at 5.8%, 6.75% and 7.15%. Single and married filing separately: 5.8% below $27,400, then $1,589 plus 6.75%, then $4,117 plus 7.15% above $64,850. Head of household: $41,100 and $97,300, bases $2,384 and $6,178. Married filing jointly: $54,850 and $129,750, bases $3,181 and $8,237. Standard deduction $15,700 single and married filing separately, $23,550 head of household, $31,400 married filing jointly. Personal exemption $5,300.

Verified
2026-08-09

Maine Revenue Services, Form 1040ES-ME 2026, p. 2, Note (1) — 2026 income tax surcharge: for tax years beginning on or after 1 January 2026 the tax is increased by 2% on the portion of Maine taxable income above $1,000,000 (single), $750,000 (married filing separately) or $1,500,000 (married filing jointly or head of household). The dollar amounts are indexed from 2027.

Verified
2026-08-09

Maine Revenue Services, 2026 Phaseout of Itemized / Standard Deductions Worksheet, citing 36 M.R.S. 5124-C(2) and 5125(7) — Standard and itemized deductions phase out linearly to zero. The phase-out starts at Maine adjusted gross income of $102,250 (single or married filing separately), $153,400 (head of household) or $204,550 (married filing jointly), and runs over $75,000, $112,500 and $150,000 respectively.

Verified
2026-08-09

Maine Revenue Services, Withholding Tables for Individual Income Tax 2026 (PDF read in full, 18 p., file dated 23 December 2025) — 2026 withholding uses its own deduction amounts, deliberately different from the return's: $12,450 single and $27,750 married, phased out over the same thresholds. One withholding allowance is $5,300. Backup withholding is a flat 5%. The booklet's worked example: a single employee paid $1,000 a week with two allowances annualises to $52,000, less $10,600 of allowances and $12,450 of deduction, leaves $28,950, and $33 is withheld each week.

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.

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