Overtime Pay Calculator — Virginia (2026)
Overtime in Virginia starts with the federal FLSA floor: 1.5× your regular rate for every hour beyond 40 in a workweek. Some states add daily overtime or double-time rules on top. This calculator shows gross overtime pay and what survives federal, FICA and Virginia taxation in 2026. Virginia uses a progressive income tax with 4 brackets running from 2.00% up to 5.75%, applied after a state standard deduction of $8,500.
Virginia Overtime Pay Calculator
Your base pay per hour.
Hours beyond 40 in the workweek.
Overtime rules that apply in Virginia
Virginia follows the federal weekly standard: overtime is owed after 40 hours in a workweek, with no general daily overtime requirement.
The "regular rate" is not just your base hourly wage — non-discretionary bonuses, shift differentials and commissions must be folded in before multiplying by 1.5, which raises the true overtime rate for many defense workers around Virginia Beach.
Is overtime taxed more in Virginia?
No — overtime is ordinary wages. It can feel over-taxed because per-period withholding tables annualize a big check as if every week looked like that, temporarily withholding at a higher rate that you recover at filing.
The Virginia layer applies to overtime exactly as to base pay, at rates up to 5.75%.
Exempt vs non-exempt in Virginia
Salaried does not mean exempt. To be exempt from overtime a worker must clear both a salary threshold and a duties test; misclassification is one of the most common wage claims filed in Virginia.
Cost of living in Virginia sits 2% above the national average (index 102), median household income is $87,249, and a one-bedroom apartment in Virginia Beach rents for roughly $1,500 a month.
Local and payroll taxes Virginia adds on top
Virginia adds no state-mandated employee payroll deduction beyond FICA, so nothing extra is taken from your gross pay at the state level.
Virginia has no separate city or county income tax, so the state figure above is the full sub-federal income tax you pay.
Overtime hours carry exactly the same local withholding as regular Virginia hours; the extra pay is taxed at your marginal rates, not at a special penalty rate, even though the deduction line looks bigger.
Working across a state line from Virginia
Virginia holds income-tax reciprocity agreements with District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. If you commute between them, your wages are taxed only by your state of residence — file the exemption certificate with your employer so the wrong state is not withheld from every paycheck.
Remote and hybrid work complicates this further: most states tax income where the work is physically performed, so a Virginia Beach resident spending part of the year at a client site in North Carolina may owe a nonresident return there. Keep a day-count log if you split time between states.
The rest of your Virginia tax bill
Virginia charges a 5.3% state sales tax, homeowners pay an average effective property tax of 0.87% of market value, and the minimum wage in force during 2026 is $12.77 an hour.
Combined rates reach 7% in Historic Triangle localities.
Income tax is only one part of a state's take. Virginia recovers revenue through sales and property tax as well, which is why headline income tax rates alone are a poor guide to how far a salary really goes. Virginia exempts Social Security and allows an age deduction up to $12,000 for filers 65+ subject to income limits.
Virginia vs North Carolina on the same salary
On a $75,000 salary, a single filer keeps about $58,026 a year in Virginia against roughly $58,791 in North Carolina — a difference of $765, or $64 a month.
Effective combined rates are 22.6% in Virginia and 21.6% in North Carolina. Set that gap against living costs: index 102 here versus 96 there, with property tax at 0.87% and 0.8% respectively.
Virginia income tax brackets 2026 (single filer)
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 – $3,000 | 2.00% |
| $3,000 – $5,000 | 3.00% |
| $5,000 – $17,000 | 5.00% |
| $17,000 and up | 5.75% |