North Dakota Paycheck Calculator 2026

A North Dakota paycheck loses ground in four predictable places before the deposit clears. Three are federal and identical from Fargo to Williston: federal income tax withheld per your W-4, Social Security at 6.2% on wages up to the $184,500 base, and Medicare at 1.45% on every dollar. The fourth is North Dakota's own income tax, which since the 2023 reform has three rates: 0% on the first $49,575 of North Dakota taxable income for a single filer in 2026, 1.95% up to $250,400 and 2.5% above that. Because North Dakota starts from federal taxable income, the $16,100 federal standard deduction comes off first, so a single worker earning up to about $65,675 a year has no state tax withheld at all, and the state line is usually the smallest of the four withholdings.

What you won't see on the stub matters too. North Dakota runs no state disability insurance and no paid-family-leave premium, so there's no SDI or PFL line eating into gross pay the way there is in California or Washington. There are no local city income taxes either. That leaves take-home pay shaped almost entirely by federal withholding plus, for higher earners, a modest state slice, which makes the gap between gross and net narrower here than in most higher-tax states.

On a $60,000 salary, North Dakota's graduated income tax, topping out at 2.5%, takes nothing from a single filer, because the state's deductions and zero-rate band cover the whole amount — on top of $4,590 in federal FICA, which is the same in every state.

The state minimum wage is $7.25/hr , matching the federal floor of $7.25 — about $15,080 a year at 40 hours a week. There is no state disability or paid-family-leave deduction, so nothing beyond income tax and FICA comes out at the state level.