$80,000 After Taxes in Iowa (2026)

A single filer paid $80,000 in Iowa has $63,900 of federal taxable income after the $16,100 standard deduction. The top slice of that income falls in the 22% federal bracket, which starts at $50,400 of taxable income, and federal income tax comes to $8,770, or 10.96% of the salary.

Payroll tax is federal and the same in Iowa as everywhere else: on $80,000 of wages it is $6,120, made up of $4,960 of Social Security at 6.2% of every dollar and $1,160 of Medicare at 1.45%.

Iowa taxable income is $63,900, and Iowa taxes it at its flat 3.8% rate. State income tax is $2,388, after $40 of credits the state applies at this income, 2.99% 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 $17,278 of a $80,000 Iowa salary goes to tax, an effective total rate of 21.60%, which leaves $62,722 a year: $5,227 a month, $2,412 every two weeks, $1,206 a week, or $30 an hour over 2,080 hours.

At $80,000, Iowa ranks 16th of 51 jurisdictions for take-home pay, highest first. A no-tax state leaves $2,388 more a year, and the median state $387 less than Iowa. The lowest take-home at $80,000 is $59,712, in Oregon, $3,010 less than in Iowa.

Across the state line the same $80,000 leaves a single filer: Minnesota $61,193, $1,528 less; Wisconsin $61,870, $852 less; Illinois $61,295, $1,427 less; Missouri $62,349, $373 less; Nebraska $62,350, $372 less; South Dakota $65,110, $2,388 more.

Some localities in Iowa levy their own income tax, and none of it is included in the $80,000 figures here; the local income tax pages explain how it works.

These Iowa figures treat the whole $80,000 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.