Take-home pay, computed in the open.
Take-home pay $2,275.63 per biweekly paycheck
per biweekly paycheck · single · Vermont · 2026 tables
- Gross / check
- $2,884.62
- Taxes / check
- $608.99
- Net / year
- $59,166
- Effective rate
- 21.1%
The stub, line by line
| Line item | Each paycheck | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $2,884.62 | $75,000 |
| Federal income tax | −$295.00 | −$7,670 |
| Vermont income tax | −$93.31 | −$2,426 |
| Social Security | −$178.85 | −$4,650 |
| Medicare | −$41.83 | −$1,088 |
| Take-home pay | $2,275.63 | $59,166 |
Vermont levies no municipal or local income taxes; the statewide 0.44% Child Care Contribution is an employer-paid payroll tax, not an employee deduction or a local income tax.
How Vermont taxes a paycheck
Vermont's 2026 schedule runs 4 brackets, from 3.35% up to 8.75% on the highest slice of income.
The 2026 Vermont standard deduction is $7,850 for a single filer and $15,700 for a married couple filing jointly.
Vermont allows a personal exemption of $5,400 per filer before its rate applies.
Vermont levies no municipal or local income taxes; the statewide 0.44% Child Care Contribution is an employer-paid payroll tax, not an employee deduction or a local income tax.
2026 Vermont brackets, single filer
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 – $50,750 | 3.35% |
| $50,750 – $122,850 | 6.6% |
| $122,850 – $256,300 | 7.6% |
| over $256,300 | 8.75% |
Common salaries, translated
Sources
- Vermont Dept. of Taxes — 2025 Vermont Tax Rate Schedules (TaxRateSched-2025.pdf): primary statutory return schedule for all 4 filing statuses with base-tax amounts; also states the 3% minimum tax for AGI over $150,000.
- Vermont Dept. of Taxes — 2025 Form IN-111 Instructions (IN-111-Instr-2025.pdf): standard-deduction chart and personal-exemption computation (Line 5e x $5,300); confirms 3% AGI minimum-tax and that VT starts from federal AGI.
- Vermont Dept. of Taxes — GB-1210-2026, 2026 Income Tax Withholding Instructions, Tables, and Charts: 2026 percentage-method annual tables used to derive the 2026 statutory brackets; 2026 annual withholding allowance $5,400; Child Care Contribution 0.44% employer payroll tax.
- Vermont Dept. of Taxes — GB-1210-2025 withholding tables: 2025 annual percentage-method table and $5,300 allowance, used to prove the withholding-to-statutory shift relationship against the published 2025 rate schedule.
- IncomeTaxPro — Vermont brackets (all 4 statuses), citing 'Preliminary Vermont Tax Rates published by the Vermont Department of Taxes'; used as an independent cross-check of the TY2024 schedule to establish the indexing trend and debunk the stale 45,400 figure.
- Tax Foundation — 2026 Vermont tax rates page (aggregator cross-check of rate range and progressive structure).
- Vermont Dept. of Taxes — Rate Schedules and Tax Tables index page (confirms the published 2026 documents and that the 'rate schedules'/'tax tables' posted are the withholding package).
- IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32 — 2026 federal brackets and standard deduction
- SSA — 2026 Social Security wage base