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Missouri Paycheck Calculator FAQ
What are Missouri's income tax brackets for 2026?
Missouri uses 8 marginal brackets ranging from 0% to 4.70%. Standard deduction: $15,750 for single filers.
How much is take-home pay on $65,000 in Missouri?
On a $65,000 gross salary, a single filer in Missouri takes home roughly $52,268.69/year (about $4,355.72/month) after federal tax, FICA, and state tax — before any local tax.
What deductions does Missouri apply before taxing my income?
Missouri applies a $15,750 standard deduction, before its marginal bracket schedule. See the "How Missouri Paycheck Tax Is Calculated" section above for the exact formula.
Does this estimate change if I'm married or have dependents?
This calculator uses single-filer figures only (v1 scope). Married filing jointly typically uses different federal and Missouri state brackets and a larger standard deduction — your actual take-home pay will differ. Dependents can also reduce federal withholding via the W-4. Check Missouri Department of Revenue's married-filing-jointly tables for a precise figure.
Does this calculator include Missouri local or city income tax?
Kansas City and St. Louis each levy a 1% local earnings tax on residents (and on nonresidents working there), not computed here.
Methodology & Source
Missouri state tax figures sourced from Missouri Department of Revenue (https://dor.mo.gov/), citing Mo. Rev. Stat. § 143.011. Federal brackets, standard deductions (single/MFJ/HoH), and FICA constants sourced from the IRS (Revenue Procedure 2025-32; married-filing-jointly Additional Medicare threshold of $250,000 is a separate, unindexed statutory figure). Missouri's married-filing-jointly and head-of-household figures are not yet independently verified and currently fall back to single-filer brackets — see the caveat in the formula section above.
Local tax figures sourced from Kansas City & St. Louis earnings tax administration. Both cities' 1% earnings tax rate has been stable for decades — cross-checked against two independent secondary sources 2026-07-29 (askdoss.com, countrytaxcalc.com) after both cities' own .gov earnings-tax pages returned a 403/DNS error in this environment. Simplification: this calculator treats the 'non-resident working here' option as if the full salary were city-sourced, same simplifying assumption as the Philadelphia non-resident option elsewhere on this site — in reality only city-sourced wages are taxed for non-residents.
Self-employment tax uses the statutory 15.3% rate (12.4% Social Security + 2.9% Medicare) on 92.35% of net self-employment income, with half of the SE tax deducted from federal taxable income above-the-line — per IRS Schedule SE (Form 1040) instructions, IRC §1401 and §164(f), 2026 edition. The 20% Qualified Business Income deduction (IRC §199A) is not modeled — it phases out by income and business type and is too state/entity-dependent to compute generically. This assumes the self-employment income is your only earnings for the year; if you also have W-2 wages, the Social Security wage-base cap and Additional Medicare threshold are actually based on your combined earnings, so this will overstate SE tax if you have significant wage income too.
This is an estimate based on standard single-filer federal, FICA, and MO state calculations. Actual withholding may differ based on your W-4 elections, pre-tax deductions, and other factors.
Guideline version: 2026-MO-v1 · Effective: 2026-01-01 · Last verified: 2026-07-26