About WageYard

Last updated: November 2026

WageYard is a small editorial project that builds free paycheck calculators and plain-English pay guides for US workers. The idea is unglamorous on purpose: when someone searches "25 dollars an hour is how much a year after taxes," they should get the actual arithmetic in the first paragraph — not a quiz, not a signup wall, not nine paragraphs about the history of money.

How the numbers work

Every figure on this site comes from one shared, documented model so pages never contradict each other. Annual pay is rate × hours per week × weeks worked per year, defaulted to 40 × 50 (two weeks of unpaid time off). After-tax estimates subtract FICA at 7.65% and approximate federal income tax as 12% of income above the commonly reported $16,100 single standard deduction. Overtime is time-and-a-half. State and local taxes are excluded — deliberately, because a fake national average would be wrong more often than right. Where we reference typical figures (deductions, brackets, wage bases, benefit loads), we describe them as reported ranges because they change annually, and we flag that everything here is an estimate, never tax advice.

Who's behind it

WageYard is written and maintained by an editorial team that works in personal-finance tooling. We keep the calculator 100% client-side so we never see your numbers, and we fund the project with unobtrusive display advertising and an optional email list (the take-home cheat sheet) — both clearly disclosed in the privacy policy.

Corrections & contact

Tax parameters shift every year and arithmetic can go wrong. If you spot a figure that looks off, email hello@wageyard.com with the page link — corrections get made and pages carry an update date. We don't offer individual tax counseling, and replies to pay questions are general information, not advice.