The Net Pay Calculator is used by State of Idaho employees to estimate the impact of a change to pay rate, hours worked, deductions, withholdings, and/or taxes may have on their take home pay. The employee's current payroll information is presented on the form as a starting point.
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NOTE: The Net Pay Calculator is designed to give general guidance and estimates ONLY.
Earnings
Deductions
Insurance Plans (Key)
Federal Taxes
State Taxes
Calculated Amounts
Navigation buttons (found on the bottom right of the form):
Calculate: Used to calculate/recalculate the net pay once all desired changes have been made.
Refresh: Used to return all edited fields back to the employee's current payroll information.
Apps Menu: Used to logout of the Net Pay Calculator. This button will return the employee to the SCO Applications Selection Menu page and select 'Log off'.
NOTE: To print the form use the internet browser print option.
Editable Fields:
Earnings:
Employee's rate of pay.
The pay rate can be entered as whole dollars or as a dollar amount with cents, i.e. 20 or 20.00.
The number of hours an employee is scheduled to work during the pay period.
Hours can be entered as a whole hour or to a 10th of an hour, i.e. 80 or 80.0.
Non-paid fringe benefits added for taxation purposes only.
Examples of fringe benefits are lodging, meals, mileage, etc.
Note: Retirement is not withheld when a taxable fringe benefit is added to a pay calculation.
An additional amount can be any type of additional pay such as: bonuses, lump sum payments, shift pay, etc.
Amounts entered will be added to the gross earnings when calculating deductions, taxes, gross pay, and net pay.
The additional amount can be entered as whole dollars or as a dollar amount with cents, i.e. 100 or 100.00.
Deductions:
Existing deduction information can be removed by clearing out the 'Percent' or 'Amount' field.
Note: Garnishment deductions are not included.
Update an existing deduction by changing the value in the 'Percent' or 'Amount' field.
Add a new deduction:
Only used with deductions taken on a percentage basis.
Value can be added/changed on a percentage based deduction.
Value can be entered as a whole percent or with decimals, i.e. 1, 1.5, or 1.25.
However, in IPOPS only whole percentages can be used.
Not editable if deduction is not percentage based. (grayed out)
Only to be used with deductions taken on an amount basis.
Value can be added/changed on an amount based deduction.
Value can be entered as whole dollars or as a dollar amount with cents, i.e. 25 or 25.00.
Not editable if deduction is not amount based. (grayed out)
Insurance Plans (Key):
FT = Full Time
PT = Part Time
1 Employee Only
2 Employee+Spouse
3 Employee+Child
4 Employee+Spouse+Child
5 Employee+Children
6 Employee+Spouse+Children
The Insurance Plan key information coincides with the health and dental plans listed in the 'Select a Deduction' dropdown.
Example:
A full time employee (FT) would like to choose a pre-tax PPO health insurance plan that covers both the employee and a child.
The employee would choose the 'PPO FT Pretax Plan#3' deduction from the dropdown.
Federal Taxes:
Indicator for Social Security and Medicare (FICA) taxes.
Note: Most employees are required to pay FICA taxes.
N = Not Exempt: FICA taxes will be withheld
Y = Exempt: FICA taxes will not be withheld per the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Federal marital tax status declared on the employee's Federal W-4 form.
Number of federal tax withholding allowances declared on the employee's W-4 form prior to January 2020.
Value can be blank (zero) or a whole number up to 999.
Note: This field can no longer be selected and will be grayed out.
Additional federal withholding amount other than the typical withholdings declared on the employee's W-4 form.
Only whole dollars can be entered, i.e. 50.
Indicator for federal taxes declared on the employee's W-4 form.
N = Not Exempt: Federal taxes will be withheld
Y = Exempt: Federal taxes will not be withheld
Y = Employee has more than one job or is married and filing jointly and the employee and their spouse both work.
Value can be blank (zero) or a whole number up to 999.
Dollar amount the employee expects to claim on deductions other than the standard deduction. This includes itemized deductions, deductions for student loan interest and IRA’s.
State Taxes:
State marital tax status declared on the employee's State W-4 form.
Number of state tax withholding allowances declared on the employee's State W-4 form.
Additional state withholding amount other than the typical withholdings declared on the employee's State W-4 form.
Indicator for state taxes declared on the employee's State W-4 form.
N = Not Exempt: State taxes will be withheld
Y = Exempt: State taxes will not be withheld
Calculated Amounts (Fields cannot be edited):
Income amount before deductions and taxes are withheld.
Estimated take home pay.
Net Pay = Gross Pay less the Total Deductions and Total Taxes.