$60,000 After Taxes in Iowa (2026)

A single filer paid $60,000 in Iowa has $43,900 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 $5,020, or 8.37% of the salary.

Payroll tax is federal and the same in Iowa as everywhere else: on $60,000 of wages it is $4,590, made up of $3,720 of Social Security at 6.2% of every dollar and $870 of Medicare at 1.45%.

Iowa taxable income is $43,900, and Iowa taxes it at its flat 3.8% rate. State income tax is $1,628, after $40 of credits the state applies at this income, 2.71% of the salary. Iowa's individual income tax is a flat 3.8% for tax year 2025 and later, the final step of S.F. 2442 (2024).

Altogether $11,238 of a $60,000 Iowa salary goes to tax, an effective total rate of 18.73%, which leaves $48,762 a year: $4,063 a month, $1,875 every two weeks, $938 a week, or $23 an hour over 2,080 hours.

At $60,000, Iowa ranks 16th of 51 jurisdictions for take-home pay, highest first. A no-tax state leaves $1,628 more a year, and the median state $222 less than Iowa. The lowest take-home at $60,000 is $46,416, in Oregon, $2,346 less than in Iowa.

Across the state line the same $60,000 leaves a single filer: Minnesota $47,833, $928 less; Wisconsin $48,320, $441 less; Illinois $47,565, $1,197 less; Missouri $48,543, $219 less; Nebraska $48,540, $222 less; South Dakota $50,390, $1,628 more.

Some localities in Iowa levy their own income tax, and none of it is included in the $60,000 figures here; the local income tax pages explain how it works.

These Iowa figures treat the whole $60,000 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.