Hawaii (HI) Paycheck Calculator 2026

Form HW-4 is required in Hawaii

Before you start work in Hawaii you must give your employer Form HW-4, the Employee's Withholding Allowance and Status Certificate. Employers may not use the federal Form W-4 for Hawaii withholding. If you do not provide an HW-4, Hawaii tax is withheld as if you were single with no allowances.

Allowances on the HW-4 are based on your personal exemptions and expected deductions. You may claim fewer allowances than you are entitled to, never more. If an employee claims an unusually large number (generally more than 10) or misstates marital status, the employer is told to send a copy to the district tax office.

TDI: Hawaii's disability deduction

Hawaii requires employers to provide Temporary Disability Insurance. Employees can be charged up to 0.5% of weekly wages, but never more than $7.50 a week in 2026, because the deduction is capped at 0.5% of the $1,500.21 maximum weekly wage base. Once you earn more than about $1,500 a week (roughly $78,011 a year), your TDI deduction stays at $7.50. Many employers pay the entire cost themselves, in which case there is no TDI line on your stub.

Example Hawaii paychecks

Single filer, bi-weekly, employee paying the maximum TDI share:

• Hawaii's brackets start low: a single filer reaches the 7.6% rate at $48,000 of taxable income, so even moderate salaries face a marginal state rate above 7%.
• Hawaii has no county or city income tax. The general excise tax affects prices, not your paycheck.

Nonresidents and short work trips to Hawaii

Wages for work done in Hawaii are generally subject to Hawaii withholding, even for nonresidents. There is an exception for short assignments: no withholding is required on a nonresident employee who works in Hawaii for no more than 60 days in the calendar year, is paid from an office outside the state, has a regular place of employment outside Hawaii, and whose employer does not expect the work to exceed 60 days. The exception does not apply to employees of construction contractors.

To be treated as a nonresident, the employee signs Form HW-6. When the employer stops withholding on Hawaii work under that statement, it must file Form HW-7 with the original HW-6. Anyone in Hawaii for more than 200 days in the year is presumed to be a resident.

Bonuses and overtime

Hawaii does not use a flat supplemental rate. Supplemental wages paid together with regular wages are withheld as one payment. If a bonus or commission is paid separately, the employer may aggregate it with your regular wages for the current or most recent pay period, or spread it over the periods it covers and withhold the difference. In practice a bonus is withheld near your marginal Hawaii rate.