Payroll taxes are those taxes paid by the employer on behalf of their employees to the government. Employers deduct the taxable amount from an employee’s paycheck and pay them to the government directly. Payroll tax amount is based on the salary of the employee.

The payroll tax calculator is a method of calculating the payroll tax as well as all the bonus and other earnings of employees. It helps to calculate the correct amount to withhold from an employee’s paycheck and gives a quick and brief statement of the important points such as deductions, retirement savings options, required tax, etc. Payroll tax calculators are responsible for computing an estimate of an employee’s taxes. For calculating the payroll tax, employees must aware about their current tax rates and it is necessary to fill and sign a W-4 form where the amount of withholding is declared by the employees. On the basis of employee’s W-4 form, all types of payroll taxes (Federal, State, or local income tax where applicable) can be calculated.

A payroll tax calculator is useful for both salaried and hourly employees. To get the net hourly pay, users have to select hourly pay rate and then enter the worked hours and the hourly gross rate. Likewise, to get the net salary amount, users have to select the salary pay rate option and then enter gross salary amount. It shows the net salary after withheld taxes and deduction. It shows how much to pay and how much to deduct for taxes. To get all the payroll tax details users have to enter their employee’s pay information in the payroll tax calculator software and this process is confidential and safe.

Huge numbers of payroll tax calculators are available online, following are the examples of some easy to use and powerful tools for calculating payroll tax commonly used in the United States.

• Paycheck Manager and eSmartPaycheck: C&S Technologies, Inc. is an online payroll software developer and also payroll tax e-file partner. It is an IRS authorized organization, established in 1996 to provide a tax return, filing software, and consulting services. The company has been offering two simple and secure payroll tax calculators—Paycheck Manager and eSmart Paycheck.
• Paycheck Manager is a free Paycheck Calculator and payroll management software: It provides payroll tax calculator for salaried or hourly employees. Paycheck Manager gives an estimate of employee’s payroll tax and other earnings. It is the easiest, creative and IRS authorized online payroll tax calculator, particularly for small businesses. It also provides free downloading and printing of paychecks and is very convenient, self-service payroll management software. Users can prepare, view, and print paycheck, payment voucher, and payroll reports. It has first three months free trial offer, after that starting monthly fee $5.
• eSmart Paycheck: This is a simple, adjustable, and self-managed web based payroll management software. It offers a very convenient free payroll tax calculator, users can start using this calculator with no registration. It specifically designed for business owners to calculate and handle their payroll and is useful for both salaried and hourly employees, 401k, bonus, other earnings, and deduction. It helps to calculate Federal and State payroll taxes for employees and employer. It provides optional payroll eFiles and EFTPS transmission services. It generates IRS and State payroll forms (941, 940, W2, etc.) for payroll reporting. Based on payroll records it generates management reports. Users can also create, download, and print paychecks and paystubs for free.
• SurePayroll calculators: SurePayroll, a web based payroll service provider offers an easy and affordable free online payroll tax calculator software for computing costs, taxes, benefits, and more. Users can calculate payroll tax anytime and anywhere by the use of their mobile app service. SurePayroll calculators are designed for calculating federal, state and local payroll taxes and works for both salaried and hourly employees. These calculators are very helpful for small business owners, they are very useful for saving payroll tax penalties.
• US Payroll Tax Engine calculators: Another considerable option for computing payroll tax is US Payroll Tax Engine, offered by Medium Inc. These calculators are designed for calculating federal tax, state tax, and local payroll taxes in 50 states and are suitable for both employee and employer payroll taxes. The US Payroll Tax Engine used for calculating federal payroll tax is called Federal Tax Calculator. It calculates federal payroll taxes of a regular payment earned weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly payment can be calculated. In the United States, there are some states where no payroll taxes at the state level and for employees work in these states federal tax is there.

The State Tax Calculator is responsible for calculating state payroll taxes. This is designed for resulting a perfect payroll tax as per the laws of resident and work state of the employee. The calculator has the option for choosing W-4 for each state, also for entering input data for YTD-W and YTD-T. County Tax calculator is the option for calculating the county level taxes for local authorities of the state. These payroll calculators require payment date, applying the tax rules, accurate tax rates, and tables for different tax authorities of the same payment date.

These payroll calculators are proposed for providing general estimation and guidance about the payroll tax and are not intended for calculating exact payroll taxes or other financial data.