Virginia Biweekly Paycheck Calculator 2026

Here is exactly what your biweekly paycheck looks like in Virginia at common annual salary levels in 2026. Calculated for a single filer, standard W-4, biweekly pay frequency, no pre-tax deductions.

Single filer · standard W-4 · biweekly pay (26 periods/yr) · no pre-tax deductions · 2026 IRS withholding tables · Virginia published 2026 withholding method. Actual paychecks vary based on filing status, allowances, and deductions.

Virginia withholds state income tax from every paycheck. Your biweekly paycheck includes these deductions:

• Federal income tax (2026 IRS withholding tables)
• Virginia state income tax (withheld each pay period)
• Social Security tax — 6.2% on wages up to $184,500
• Medicare tax — 1.45% on all wages
• Employee benefit deductions

A biweekly pay schedule means you receive a paycheck every two weeks — 26 paychecks per year. To find your gross biweekly pay, divide your annual salary by 26:

Two months per year you will receive three biweekly paychecks instead of two. This is sometimes called a "three-paycheck month." Because benefit deductions are often fixed per paycheck, the extra check can feel larger than usual.

Your net biweekly paycheck in Virginia depends on your annual salary, W-4 filing status, Virginia state withholding elections, retirement contributions, health insurance deductions, and any additional withholding.

The calculator above uses Virginia's withholding formula effective July 2025 and later. If you are comparing against a stub from the first half of 2025, the method differs — that mid-year change split the biweekly year the way Georgia's, Ohio's and Utah's do in 2026.

For 2026 the formula is stable across all 26 periods, which makes Virginia easier to project than several of its neighbours. A January paycheck is a reliable guide to a December one at the same salary.

Virginia's top bracket begins at a taxable income level set decades ago and never adjusted for inflation. Almost every full-time worker is in it, which means Virginia behaves like a flat-rate state in practice despite having four brackets on paper.

For a biweekly earner this makes the state line highly predictable: a near-constant percentage of gross across all 26 checks, with little bracket effect from a raise. The exemptions claimed on Form VA-4 are the main lever, and Virginia also provides additional exemptions for age and blindness.

Virginia maintains reciprocal agreements with the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. Residents of those places working in Virginia file Form VA-4 and have no Virginia withholding.

This is what makes the Washington metropolitan area workable: a Virginia resident working in DC or Maryland has one jurisdiction in their withholding rather than two. North Carolina and Tennessee are not partners — Tennessee takes nothing, but a North Carolina worksite means withholding from both states on all 26 checks.