$30,000 After Taxes in West Virginia (2026)

A single filer paid $30,000 in West Virginia 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 West Virginia 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%.

West Virginia taxable income is $28,000, and its top slice reaches the 3.16% West Virginia rate above $25,000, below the state's 4.58% top rate. State income tax is $727, 2.42% of the salary. West Virginia has five graduated brackets applied to West Virginia taxable income.

Altogether $4,442 of a $30,000 West Virginia salary goes to tax, an effective total rate of 14.81%, which leaves $25,558 a year: $2,130 a month, $983 every two weeks, $491 a week, or $12 an hour over 2,080 hours.

At $30,000, West Virginia ranks 34th of 51 jurisdictions for take-home pay, highest first. A no-tax state leaves $727 more a year, and the median state $166 more than West Virginia. The lowest take-home at $30,000 is $24,621, in Oregon, $937 less than in West Virginia.

Across the state line the same $30,000 leaves a single filer: Pennsylvania $25,364, $194 less; Maryland $25,224, $334 less; Virginia $25,374, $184 less; Kentucky $25,353, $205 less; Ohio $25,897, $339 more.

These West Virginia 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.