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Income & Paycheck

What your paycheck really pays: take-home math, FICA, severance, overtime and tips, and withholding.

The number that matters is the one that lands in your account. The take-home guide walks the whole deduction stack, federal tax, FICA, state tax, and pre-tax benefits, so the gap between salary and deposit stops being a mystery. The severance and overtime guides cover the special cases, including what OBBBA's overtime and tips deductions really change, and the wage-base guide explains why high earners see Social Security tax stop mid-year. All of it runs on the same state-aware paycheck engine as the calculators.