Payroll tools and source-backed guidance
Mississippi Paycheck Calculator
Work out Mississippi take-home pay from gross, pay frequency, filing status and pre-tax deductions. Federal and FICA are estimated for you; enter the MS...
Estimate pay before Mississippi state and local withholding, then enter the amount from current official state guidance.
Mississippi 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. Mississippi income tax withholding under Publication 89-700 is entered by you rather than calculated, so a blank state field leaves the estimate showing pay before any Mississippi withholding at all. This calculator is an estimate workspace, not a payroll filing service. Verify every assumption with current official instructions.
What the Mississippi withholding field expects
Mississippi withholding is not calculated here. Copy the amount for one pay period from the table the Department of Revenue issues for that period, or from a genuine pay record. Publication 89-700 settles the case people forget: where an employee has filed no Form 89-350 exemption certificate, the employer computes the deduction on zero exemption, so a missing form does not mean a missing deduction. That publication also treats a bonus, commission or overtime payment made alongside regular wages as a single payment for the regular payroll period, which matters if you fold extra pay into the gross figure above. Left blank, the screen shows pay before Mississippi withholding.
Why a Mississippi figure can go stale
Mississippi does not tax wage income through graduated brackets: one rate sits above an exemption, and An amount copied from an older pay record can therefore be wrong even when nothing about the job has changed, so check the current revision of Publication 89-700 before trusting it. That publication also deals with employees whose personal exemptions run past what the tables provide for. Leave the local field empty unless a real pay record shows a genuinely local deduction.
Frequently asked questions
Which Mississippi number belongs in the state field?
The amount withheld for one pay period at the frequency you selected, read from the table in Publication 89-700 built for that period, or copied from a genuine pay statement covering it. A year-to-date running total or an annual figure will overstate the deduction. Switching the frequency on this page wipes what you supplied, because a monthly figure reused on a weekly paycheck would overstate the deduction and drag the take-home number down.
Does the estimate include everything a Mississippi employer would deduct?
No. It applies the federal assumptions you enter and adds nothing on the state side unless you type it in. Mississippi income tax withholding sits outside what this page computes, and so does any other amount your employer takes out of the pay. Treat the output as a way to check your own inputs and ask sharper questions of payroll, not as a pay statement, a tax return or a settled take-home figure.