Maine
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Maine’s brackets are 5.8%, 6.75%, and 7.15% after a personal exemption and a standard deduction. This file uses $8,350 single / $16,700 joint for that deduction because the Tax Foundation conformity footnote still pointed at a pre-OBBBA federal amount. If Maine has since adopted the higher 2026 federal deduction, this state line runs high.
Dependent relief is a credit in Maine and is not modeled when you enter a dependent count. Exemption and deduction phaseouts at higher incomes are also omitted. Portland does not add a city wage tax here. Paid family leave programs for Maine are documented as not modeled yet.
A traditional 401(k) reduces the Maine income-tax base; FICA does not. Read the confidence label: estimated means the conformity and phaseout gaps are known, not that the brackets themselves were invented.
Example take-home
| Salary | Federal | FICA | State | Payroll | Local | Net / year | Net / check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $40,000.00 | $2,620.00 | $3,060.00 | $1,528.30 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $32,791.70 | $1,261.22 |
| $60,000.00 | $5,020.00 | $4,590.00 | $2,868.33 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $47,521.67 | $1,827.75 |
| $80,000.00 | $8,770.00 | $6,120.00 | $4,224.34 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $60,885.66 | $2,341.75 |
| $100,000.00 | $13,170.00 | $7,650.00 | $5,654.34 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $73,525.66 | $2,827.91 |
| $150,000.00 | $24,734.00 | $11,475.00 | $9,229.34 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $104,561.66 | $4,021.61 |
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What this page includes
- Federal income tax using the 2026 standard deduction and Rev. Proc. 2025-32 brackets
- Social Security (6.2% up to $184,500) and Medicare (1.45%, plus Additional Medicare when wages clear the filing-status threshold)
- Maine: graduated state income tax (top 7.15%)
- No employee state disability / paid-leave premium modeled for this state yet
- Local wage tax only if you select a city/county or enter a custom percent
Local tax
Maine does not have a local wage tax in this file. City costs show up in rent and sales tax, not as a second income-tax line on the stub.
What is not included
Credits, itemized deductions, multi-state credits, property tax, sales tax, and unsourced local rates are not included. Employer payroll tables can differ from this annualized estimate. This Maine page does not invent taxes that are missing from the 2026 data files.
Questions
What Maine rates are in this calculator?
5.8%, 6.75%, and 7.15% after the modeled deduction and personal exemption.
Why might the Maine deduction be too small?
The estimate uses a pre-OBBBA conformity figure ($8,350 / $16,700). A higher federal-conformity deduction would lower tax.
Are Maine dependent credits included?
No. Dependent credits are not modeled; entering a dependent count does not invent them.
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Sources
- IRS newsroom, tax year 2026 inflation adjustments (Rev. Proc. 2025-32)
- Rev. Proc. 2025-32 (PDF)
- Tax Foundation, 2026 federal income tax brackets
- IRS Publication 15-T, Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods
- SSA, Contribution and benefit base
- IRS Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer's Tax Guide
- IRS, Questions and answers for the Additional Medicare Tax
- Tax Foundation, State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets, 2026
- IRS, state government websites index
See a rate that looks wrong? The sources and the gaps are public.