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Arkansas Paycheck Calculator
Work out Arkansas take-home pay from gross, pay frequency, filing status and pre-tax deductions. Federal and FICA are estimated for you; enter the AR...
Estimate pay before Arkansas state and local withholding, then enter the amount from current official state guidance.
Arkansas state withholding is not calculated automatically. Enter the amount for this pay period from an official worksheet or genuine payroll record to include it; leave it blank to see pay before state withholding. You can enter a known local withholding amount separately. This page estimates federal withholding and FICA for a single Arkansas pay period, so the Arkansas line is only ever the number you supply from an official Department of Finance and Administration worksheet or a real pay record, and border city status in Texarkana can make that number zero. This calculator is an estimate workspace, not a payroll filing service. Verify every assumption with current official instructions.
What Form AR4EC decides, and this page cannot
Arkansas withholding starts with Form AR4EC, the employee's withholding exemption certificate from the Department of Finance and Administration. On it a worker claims exemptions for self, spouse or head of household and for each dependent, can ask for an additional amount out of every paycheck, and can state that they qualify for the low income tax rates. None of those three choices has a field in this calculator, and no Arkansas figure is derived from them. The state line only carries a number you put there yourself, read off a genuine pay record or worked out from the employer instructions the department publishes; left blank, the total shown is pay before Arkansas withholding.
Texarkana changes the answer
Texarkana is the exception to check before typing anything. A resident of Texarkana, Arkansas is exempt from Arkansas individual income tax, and a resident of Texarkana, Texas is exempt on wages earned in Texarkana, Arkansas, with other Arkansas-source income still taxable. A qualifying worker gives the employer Form AR4EC(TX), which is what allows the employer to stop withholding Arkansas income tax, and the employer furnishes Form AR-TX covering the exempt wages. If that describes you and your statement shows no state withholding, enter zero rather than guessing. Everyone else copies the figure for the same period as the gross pay above, with any additional amount requested on AR4EC already inside that single line.
Frequently asked questions
Why is there no Arkansas withholding in the result?
Because this page does not calculate it. The Arkansas amount depends on the exemptions, the additional amount and the low income rate statement a worker enters on Form AR4EC, and on the instructions the Department of Finance and Administration publishes for employers. None of that is modelled here. The Arkansas line stays out of the total until you supply one pay period's amount, and the heading over the result says the figure is pay before Arkansas withholding.
I live in Texarkana. What should I put in the state field?
Check your own position against the Department of Finance and Administration's border city guidance first, because the exemption is not the same on each side of the line: a resident of Texarkana, Arkansas is exempt from Arkansas individual income tax, while a resident of Texarkana, Texas is exempt only on wages earned in Texarkana, Arkansas. If the exemption applies and your pay statement shows no Arkansas withholding, enter zero. If it shows an amount, enter that amount.