NYC Tax breakdown

[WhirledWorld]

Income

Salary: 160,000
Bonus: 10,000
Total Gross Income: $170,000

Taxes
New York City Income Tax (does not apply to NJ residents):

• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income: 5989.40
• For single: 6083.60

New York State Income Tax:

• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income: 9815.5
• For single: 10734.25

Federal Income Tax

• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NJ: 31566.8
• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NYC: 30953.63
• For single, living in NJ: 36990.91
• For single, living in NYC: 35287.57

Other federal taxes:

• Social Security tax: 7049.40
• Medicare tax: 2465

After tax income

• Married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NJ: $119,103.30
• Married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NYC: $114,790.93
• Single, living in NJ: $112,760.44
• Single, living in NYC: $108,380.18

Notes

• This obviously shouldn't be taken as legit tax advice
• Income taxes could be even lower if you tax deductions for, e.g., health expenses, business expenses, mortgage interest, etc. But after state and city taxes, most folks will be approaching the limits for the Alternative Minimum Tax.
• If you're just deducting state income tax, married individuals should claim the standard deduction--in that case, they net $119,687.10, which is about $580 more.
• Married individuals obviously need to recalculate with their spouse's income for this to be of much use.
• This includes a $10,000 year-end bonus, so this gives an annual comp estimate but not a paycheck calculator.
• This doesn't include any credits, though I don't believe any would typically apply, except the education credits in your stub year.

Please let me know if this is about right.

[WhirledWorld]

Calculations:

NYC Income tax

• Married: 3071 + (80,000*0.03648)
• Single: 1076 + (110,000*0.03648)

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/downloads/p ... n_2012.pdf

NY State income tax

• Married pay $1938 on first $50,000 and are taxed at 6.85% on the rest, less a 15,000 standard deduction: 1938+(130000-15,000)*.0685 = 9815.5
• Singles are taxed $972 on the first $20,000 and are taxed at 6.85% on the rest, less a 7,500 standard deduction: 973+(150,000-7500)*.0685 - 10734.25

Federal Income tax


Married pay $27735 on first $142,700 and are taxed at 28% on the rest, less the respective deductions for local taxes and a personal exemption of 3800:

• For Married in NJ, that's 27735+(170,000-142700-9815-3800)*.28= $31,566.8
• For Married in NJ, that's 27735+(170,000-142700-9815-3800-5989.4)*.28= $29889.77

Singles are taxed $17442.50 on the first $85,650 and are taxed at 28% on the rest, less the respective deductions for local taxes and a personal exemption of 3800:

• For Married in NJ, that's 17442.5+(170,000-85650-10734-3800)*.28= $36,990.91
• For Married in NJ, that's 17442.5+(170,000-85650-10734-3800-6083.6)*.28= $35,287.57

[Pokemon]

Income

Salary: 160,000
Bonus: 10,000
Total Gross Income: $170,000

Taxes
New York City Income Tax (does not apply to NJ residents):

• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income: 5989.40
• For single: 6083.60

New York State Income Tax:

• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income: 10,148.36
• For single: 10,526.97

Federal Income Tax

• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NJ: 27,586
• For married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NYC: 24584.50
• For single, living in NJ: 34,101.94
• For single, living in NYC: 30,694.90

Other federal taxes:

• Social Security tax: 7049.40
• Medicare tax: 2465

After tax income

• Married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NJ: $122,751.24
• Married, filing jointly, excluding spouse's income, living in NYC: $120,128.14
• Single, living in NJ: $115,856.69
• Single, living in NYC: $113,180.13

Notes

• This obviously shouldn't be taken as legit tax advice
• Income taxes could be even lower if you tax deductions for, e.g., health expenses, business expenses, mortgage interest, etc. But after state and city taxes, most folks will be approaching the limits for the Alternative Minimum Tax.
• Married individuals obviously need to recalculate with their spouse's income for this to be of much use.
• This includes a $10,000 year-end bonus, so this gives an annual comp estimate but not a paycheck calculator.
• This doesn't include any credits, though I don't believe any would typically apply, except the education credits in your stub year.

Please let me know if this is about right.


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[lonerider]

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[thesealocust]

Yep. Living in New Jersey means you're likely to get more/nicer space, pay less rent, or both as well. Commute may even be better depending on your firm and where else in NYC you'd look

[WhirledWorld]

Pretty surprised at the small difference between NJ & NYC, when NYC taxes are 6%. Is this because these taxes are deductible from fed taxes?

Makes me rethink my idea of living in Jersey City when I graduate & start working.

Yeah, that was my bad. I messed up the math. It should be right now, though.

By living in NJ, you save about $6000 from not paying NYC income tax, less value of the deduction from federal tax.

In total, living in NJ saves you about $4300 in taxes annually.

Of course, then you have to account for NJ Transit costs and the value of your time not spent in a commute, as well as the cheaper apartments and COL generally in NJ.

[Anonymous User]

This is off, right? I thought it was well-established that $160k after taxes in NYC was ~$93k?

[thesealocust]

This is off, right? I thought it was well-established that $160k after taxes in NYC was ~$93k?

No, it's not off. It is including the calculation of a $10,000 first year bonus, but even without that 93k is well below after tax NYC takehome.

[WhirledWorld]

This is off, right? I thought it was well-established that $160k after taxes in NYC was ~$93k?

This is your net annual pay, including bonuses, before things like health/dental/401k/meal plans/salary advances. Your actual paycheck will be lower.

[Hutz_and_Goodman]

Can someone help me figure out how to ballpark spouses income? If I'm making NYC standard for a first year, and according to the above my after tax is $115k, and my spouse makes 40k, what is the after tax on that? Like 25k?

[WhirledWorld]

Can someone help me figure out how to ballpark spouses income? If I'm making NYC standard for a first year, and according to the above my after tax is $115k, and my spouse makes 40k, what is the after tax on that? Like 25k?

Assuming you both claim the standard deduction, you start off with 119,687.10 after taxes. Then you just add your wife's income at the marginal tax brackets:

You'd pay 6.85% of the 40k to NY/NJ State income tax = 2740

1.45% to the Medicare tax = 580

6.2% to Social Security on the spouse's income = 2480

If you live in the city, you pay 3.648% on the 40k to the NYC income tax = 1459.20.

28% of the 40k (less 3800 for your spouse's personal exemption) to the federal government = 10,136

So if my math is right, you'd pay a total of $15,936 (in NJ) on the 40k. In NYC, it'd be $17,395.20. (in NYC).

So net annual pay in NJ would be $143,751.10. In NYC, it'd be about $138,388.11 because you'd pay an extra 7448.60 in NYC income tax, but you'd be able to deduct that off your federal income tax.

Couple caveats:

• Like before, this math is before things like insurance, 401k contributions, paying back salary advances, etc. Your actual expendable income will be lower.
• I checked and 40,000 won't bump you up into any higher tax brackets. But for those with spouses making over $53,050/yr, your income will hit the 33% federal tax bracket for all income above that marker.
• I did the math incrementally (i.e. I took the baseline results from the first post and just added the spouse's income on top). Not sure if that would give different results than plugging 210,000 into the equations, but if you really care you can double check the math (the equations are all in the second post).

[WhirledWorld]

BONUS POST: Stub year taxes.

Assume you work October 1-December 31, netting 25% of your annual income plus a pro-rated bonus: Net annual income = $42,500.

Assuming you're single:

Federal = 4477.50

NY State Income = 2514.25

Social Security = 2635

Medicare = 616.25

Net taxes = $10,243

Net Income = $32,257

[anon919]

Nice. Thanks for this.

[WhirledWorld]

BONUS POST: Stub year taxes.

Assume you work October 1-December 31, netting 25% of your annual income plus a pro-rated bonus: Net annual income = $42,500.

Assuming you're single:

Federal = 4477.50

NY State Income = 2514.25

Social Security = 2635

Medicare = 616.25

Net taxes = $10,243

Net Income = $32,257

Actually I forgot to add the lifetime learning credit, which reduces your federal taxes by $2,000 (assuming you spent at least $10,000 on tuition/books etc.)

So during your stub year, with the above assumptions, you actually take home about $34,257.

[shock259]

Great breakdown. This is a bit higher than I remember seeing on other calculators (like paycheckcity). Let's hope your info is right. Thanks!