How much is Missouri state income tax?

It is graduated. Nothing is charged on the first $1,348 of taxable income, and the bands then run from 2% to 4.7%. On $75,000 the marginal rate is 4.7% and the effective rate 3.45%, because the lower bands are filled first.

What is take-home pay on $75,000 in Missouri?

Missouri takes about $2,588 a year at that salary — 3.45% of gross — before federal tax and FICA. Enter your own figure above for the per-paycheck answer.

Does Missouri have local income taxes?

Kansas City and St. Louis each charge a 1% earnings tax on residents and on anyone working in the city. It is not included here.

Is Missouri a high-tax state overall?

On income, Missouri takes 3.45% of a $75,000 salary. But the whole burden is three taxes: sales tax here is 8.44% combined, 12th of fifty, and property tax 0.89%, 23rd of fifty. The two pull in opposite directions, which is why a single ranking of "tax-friendly states" tells you little about your own household.

Is this the same as what my employer withholds?

Close, not identical. Withholding follows the W-4 you filed and your state’s equivalent form, which can carry allowances, extra withholding or a second job adjustment this page does not know about. The annual tax is what settles on your return; withholding is an instalment against it.

Missouri paycheck calculator

On a $75,000 salary paid twice a month, a Missouri paycheck is $2,459 after tax — $59,005 a year, single, with no 401(k) and no health premium. $108 of each cheque is Missouri income tax, charged at its 8 graduated bands for 2026. Local taxes are named below rather than silently omitted.

Missouri rates for 2026 and federal withholding checked against their published tables 2 September 2026 · How we check

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Take-home pay in Missouri

$2,011.15

$81.45 of that is Missouri income tax, on top of $216.15 of federal withholding and $191.25 of FICA.

Gross: $2,500.00
Federal income tax: $216.15
Social security: $155.00
Medicare: $36.25
Missouri income tax: $81.45
Take-home: $2,011.15
Annualised gross: $65,000.00
Missouri tax a year: $2,117.67

Missouri takes 3.26% of the gross overall, with the next dollar at 4.7% — the effective rate is lower because the lower bands are filled first.

Missouri income tax for 2026

Missouri income tax brackets
Rate	Taxable income up to (single)
0%	$1,348
2%	$2,696
2.5%	$4,044
3%	$5,392
3.5%	$6,740
4%	$8,088
4.5%	$9,436
4.7%	no ceiling

$75,000 in Missouri, paid twice a month

Single, no dependants, no 401(k) and no pre-tax health premium — so every line below is tax rather than a benefit election. The gross cheque is $3,125.00.

A $75,000 salary in Missouri, line by line, paid twice a month
Federal income tax	−$319.58
Social security (6.2%)	−$193.75
Medicare (1.45%)	−$45.31
Missouri income tax	−$107.82
Take-home each cheque	$2,458.53

That is $59,005 a year, 78.7% of gross. Missouri took $2,588 of it — the difference between this state and a no-income-tax state at the same salary.

Form MO W-4 is what sets your state withholding

It carries a line for the federal tax deduction, because Missouri lets part of what you pay the IRS reduce state taxable income.

What Missouri charges as well

Income tax is one of three. The other two do not come out of a paycheck, but they decide what the paycheck buys.

Sales and property tax in Missouri
Sales tax, state plus average local	8.44%	12th of fifty
Property tax on median home value	0.89%	23rd of fifty

The state rate is 4.23% and local jurisdictions add 4.22% on average, reaching 8.44% where you shop. At 0.89% that is about $3,560 a year on a $400,000 home. Work yours out on the property tax calculator.

Withholding is an instalment, not the bill. What the year actually settles at is on the refund calculator, and the dates it settles on are the federal tax deadlines.

What this does not include

Missouri has seven narrow bands topping out at 4.7% above $9,436 of taxable income, so the marginal rate is effectively flat for anyone earning a full-time wage.
Part of what you pay the IRS can be deducted from Missouri taxable income, which no flat-tax state allows. This calculator does not apply that deduction.
Kansas City and St. Louis each charge a 1% earnings tax on residents and on anyone working in the city. It is not included here.

Questions people actually ask

How much is Missouri state income tax?: It is graduated. Nothing is charged on the first $1,348 of taxable income, and the bands then run from 2% to 4.7%. On $75,000 the marginal rate is 4.7% and the effective rate 3.45%, because the lower bands are filled first.
What is take-home pay on $75,000 in Missouri?: Missouri takes about $2,588 a year at that salary — 3.45% of gross — before federal tax and FICA. Enter your own figure above for the per-paycheck answer.
Does Missouri have local income taxes?: Kansas City and St. Louis each charge a 1% earnings tax on residents and on anyone working in the city. It is not included here.
Is Missouri a high-tax state overall?: On income, Missouri takes 3.45% of a $75,000 salary. But the whole burden is three taxes: sales tax here is 8.44% combined, 12th of fifty, and property tax 0.89%, 23rd of fifty. The two pull in opposite directions, which is why a single ranking of "tax-friendly states" tells you little about your own household.
Is this the same as what my employer withholds?: Close, not identical. Withholding follows the W-4 you filed and your state’s equivalent form, which can carry allowances, extra withholding or a second job adjustment this page does not know about. The annual tax is what settles on your return; withholding is an instalment against it.

The same paycheck next door

State income tax follows where you live, not where you work, so a move across one of these lines changes the figure above without changing the job. Rates on the same $75,000.

Arkansas$2,741 Illinois$3,568 Iowa$2,238 Kansas$3,385 Kentucky$2,507 Nebraska$2,709 Oklahoma$2,830 Tennesseeno income tax

Where the state line is nothing

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