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North Dakota Paycheck Calculator
Work out North Dakota take-home pay from gross, pay frequency, filing status and pre-tax deductions. Federal and FICA are estimated for you; enter the ND...
Estimate pay before North Dakota state and local withholding, then enter the amount from current official state guidance.
North Dakota 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. Federal withholding and FICA are the only amounts calculated on this page; the North Dakota figure is one you enter from an Office of State Tax Commissioner worksheet or a genuine pay record, and it can legitimately be zero for a qualifying Minnesota or Montana resident who has filed Form NDW-R. This calculator is an estimate workspace, not a payroll filing service. Verify every assumption with current official instructions.
When North Dakota withholding is not due at all
North Dakota has income tax reciprocity with Minnesota and Montana: wages paid to a resident of either state for services performed in North Dakota are exempt from North Dakota withholding when the employee gives the employer Form NDW-R, which has to be completed again each year, and a Minnesota resident must also return to that home at least once a month. Where that applies, zero is the honest entry in the state field. For everyone else the figure has to come from an Office of State Tax Commissioner worksheet or a real pay record, because this calculator does not work it out.
Getting the amount onto the right line
Only the amount you type reaches the North Dakota line. The filing status picked above drives the federal estimate and nothing else, so no state figure appears until you supply one. Take it from a single pay period matched to the gross pay shown here, never from a year-to-date column, and prefer a real statement to anything rebuilt backwards from a net figure. A change of pay frequency wipes the state and local boxes, so set them again afterwards. Refresh the amount after a withholding certificate change, since payroll recalculates the North Dakota figure from it. An empty state field is reported as exactly that: a total from which no North Dakota tax has been subtracted.
Frequently asked questions
Do Minnesota and Montana residents owe North Dakota withholding?
Not on wages for services performed in North Dakota, provided the employee files Form NDW-R with the employer and completes a new one each year; a Minnesota resident must also return to that home at least monthly. The Office of State Tax Commissioner sets the filing deadlines for the form. If the exemption applies and your statement shows no North Dakota withholding, enter zero here, so the state line reads as a supplied zero rather than an omission.
Should I copy the North Dakota amount or work it out myself?
Copy it whenever a genuine pay statement covers the period you are modelling, because that is what payroll actually withheld and it is exactly what the state field is for. A figure you rebuild by hand from the Office of State Tax Commissioner's published instructions can land slightly away from payroll's, since the instructions allow more than one route to the number. Use them only when no statement covers the period, and treat the outcome as an estimate rather than the amount that will be withheld.