South Dakota paycheck: how much tax is taken out? (2026)

A single filer earning $59,000 in South Dakota has $9,414 taken out over the 2026 tax year, 16.0% of gross: $4,900 federal income tax, $4,514 Social Security and Medicare, and nothing to the state. Take-home is $49,587.

That is $953.59 a week, $1,907.17 every two weeks, $2,066.10 twice a month or $4,132.21 a month. Taxable income of $42,900 after the $16,100 standard deduction puts the last dollar in the 12.0% federal bracket. On a $60,000 salary South Dakota ranks 1 of 51 for take-home, $2,013 above the national median of $48,377.

South Dakota does not tax wages, so the state line on a South Dakota stub is $0.

South Dakota levies no income tax and a 4.2% state sales tax, one of the lower state rates, though municipalities add their own. Its budget leans on sales tax and on bank and credit-card operations domiciled in the state.

South Dakota taxes neither wages nor corporate income, and no municipality levies an income tax of its own, which is a large part of why so many card issuers and trust companies are domiciled here. State sales tax is 4.2% with municipalities allowed to add their own on top, and unlike most states it applies to services as well as goods, so the base is wide even though the rate looks low. Construction work is taxed separately through a contractor's excise tax. For a worker the arithmetic is simple: gross to net is federal tax and FICA only, and what the state takes it takes at the checkout rather than from the paycheck.

On $44,000, $6,466 comes out (14.7%) and $37,534 stays, $1,443.62 every two weeks.

On $64,000, $10,396 comes out (16.2%) and $53,604 stays, $2,061.69 every two weeks.

On $90,000, $17,855 comes out (19.8%) and $72,145 stays, $2,774.81 every two weeks.

On $116,000, $25,564 comes out (22.0%) and $90,436 stays, $3,478.31 every two weeks.

On $170,000, $42,539 comes out (25.0%) and $127,461 stays, $4,902.35 every two weeks.

Married filing jointly on $90,000 keeps $76,675 against $72,145 for a single filer, $4,530 more, because the federal standard deduction doubles to $32,200.

On $60,000 nobody keeps more than South Dakota's $50,390, a figure it shares with Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming. The nearest state that keeps less is Washington at $49,646, $744 behind.

A traditional 401(k) at 6% on $64,000 sends $3,840 into the plan and cuts tax by $461, so take-home falls by only $3,379. Health premiums of $200 a month under a section 125 plan cut $472 of tax on the same salary, because they come out before FICA as well as income tax.

Every figure above came from the South Dakota paycheck calculator with 2026 rates.