$30,000 After Taxes in Arkansas (2026)

A single filer paid $30,000 in Arkansas has $13,900 of federal taxable income after the $16,100 standard deduction. The top slice of that income falls in the 12% federal bracket, which starts at $12,400 of taxable income, and federal income tax comes to $1,420, or 4.73% of the salary.

Payroll tax is federal and the same in Arkansas as everywhere else: on $30,000 of wages it is $2,295, made up of $1,860 of Social Security at 6.2% of every dollar and $435 of Medicare at 1.45%.

Arkansas taxable income is $27,530, and its top slice reaches the 3.7% Arkansas rate above $26,400, the state top rate. State income tax is $622, after $29 of credits the state applies at this income, 2.07% of the salary. The same brackets and rates apply to every filing status; only the standard deduction differs (married filing jointly gets twice the single amount).

Altogether $4,337 of a $30,000 Arkansas salary goes to tax, an effective total rate of 14.46%, which leaves $25,663 a year: $2,139 a month, $987 every two weeks, $494 a week, or $12 an hour over 2,080 hours.

At $30,000, Arkansas ranks 29th of 51 jurisdictions for take-home pay, highest first. A no-tax state leaves $622 more a year, and the median state $61 more than Arkansas. The lowest take-home at $30,000 is $24,621, in Oregon, $1,042 less than in Arkansas.

Across the state line the same $30,000 leaves a single filer: Missouri $25,829, $166 more; Tennessee $26,285, $622 more; Mississippi $25,817, $154 more; Louisiana $25,771, $109 more; Texas $26,285, $622 more; Oklahoma $25,481, $182 less.

These Arkansas figures treat the whole $30,000 as wages, take the standard deduction, claim no dependents and include no federal credits. A pre-tax 401(k) contribution or health premium would lower taxable income and raise take-home; a second income or itemized deductions would change it again.