Free payroll calculators · Tax year 2026
Every calculator on this site publishes its formula, passes a public test suite, and cites primary sources. No sign-up, no tracking, nothing to load.
Estimates for personal planning — not tax or payroll advice. Assumes 40 hrs/week, 26 biweekly checks/yr. Gross pay, before withholding.
We timed the #1 Google result for “texas paycheck calculator”: after 142 seconds its calculator was still loading. Every number above was computed before your first keystroke — and recomputes in under a millisecond after it. (our SERP audit, Jul 2026)
New pay after a % or $ raise — and what actually changes on your next check.
new = current × (1 + r)Federal FLSA overtime pay. State daily-OT rules are flagged, never silently skipped.
OT = rate × 1.5 × hrs>40Your 1.5× rate for overtime and holiday hours, per hour and per shift.
rate₁.₅ = rate × 1.57:45 becomes 7.75 — payroll-ready decimal hours, with the full conversion table.
dec = h + m ÷ 60Both directions, any schedule — the full frequency table.
hourly = annual ÷ (hrs × 52)Weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly — same salary, different checks.
check = annual ÷ 26Weeks-per-year severance math, with the tax questions explained — not guessed.
sev = wk_pay × wks × yrsFlat, tiered, or draw — plus the overtime rule most calculators skip.
comm = sales × ratePure-arithmetic tools ship first. Anything that needs jurisdiction data waits until the data is verified against the primary source — then the source is cited on the page.
Your pay stub is a dense tax document written in abbreviations. We wrote out every one of them — what it is, which IRS or DOL rule governs it, and which calculator checks it.