Overtime Pay Calculator — Wisconsin (2026)
Overtime in Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin taxation in 2026. Wisconsin uses a progressive income tax with 4 brackets running from 3.50% up to 7.65%, applied after a state standard deduction of $13,230.
Wisconsin Overtime Pay Calculator
Your base pay per hour.
Hours beyond 40 in the workweek.
Overtime rules that apply in Wisconsin
Wisconsin 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 manufacturing workers around Milwaukee.
Is overtime taxed more in Wisconsin?
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 Wisconsin layer applies to overtime exactly as to base pay, at rates up to 7.65%.
Exempt vs non-exempt in Wisconsin
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 Wisconsin.
Cost of living in Wisconsin sits 4% below the national average (index 96), median household income is $72,458, and a one-bedroom apartment in Milwaukee rents for roughly $1,300 a month.
Local and payroll taxes Wisconsin adds on top
Wisconsin adds no state-mandated employee payroll deduction beyond FICA, so nothing extra is taken from your gross pay at the state level.
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin
Wisconsin holds income-tax reciprocity agreements with Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan. 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 Milwaukee resident spending part of the year at a client site in Illinois may owe a nonresident return there. Keep a day-count log if you split time between states.
The rest of your Wisconsin tax bill
Wisconsin charges a 5% state sales tax, homeowners pay an average effective property tax of 1.61% of market value, and the minimum wage in force during 2026 is $7.25 an hour.
County taxes bring most combined rates to 5.5%, and Milwaukee to 7.9%.
Income tax is only one part of a state's take. Wisconsin 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. Wisconsin exempts Social Security and offers a retirement income subtraction for lower-income filers 65+.
Wisconsin vs Illinois on the same salary
On a $75,000 salary, a single filer keeps about $58,705 a year in Wisconsin against roughly $57,880 in Illinois — a difference of $825, or $69 a month.
Effective combined rates are 21.7% in Wisconsin and 22.8% in Illinois. Set that gap against living costs: index 96 here versus 93 there, with property tax at 1.61% and 2.07% respectively.
Wisconsin income tax brackets 2026 (single filer)
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 – $14,320 | 3.50% |
| $14,320 – $28,640 | 4.40% |
| $28,640 – $315,310 | 5.30% |
| $315,310 and up | 7.65% |