$10/hr After Taxes in West Virginia (WV)

At $10.00/hr working a standard 40-hour workweek (2,080 hours per year), your gross annual income is $20,800. In West Virginia, a single filer claiming 1 Form IT-104 personal exemption allowance keeps roughly $8.79 per hour after taxes — yielding about $351.55 per week, $703.10 bi-weekly, or $1,523 per month before municipal user fees.

Under the West Virginia Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Law (W. Va. Code § 21-5C-3), non-exempt employees must be paid 1.5 times their regular hourly rate for hours worked over 40 in a workweek. At $10.00/hr, your overtime pay rate is $15.00/hr. Working 5 hours of overtime adds +$59.66 to your weekly take-home pay, while 10 hours adds +$119.16.

On a $20,800 annual gross income, deductions include approximately $470 in federal income tax, $458 in West Virginia state income tax (graduated from 2.11% to 4.58% under SB 392), and $1,591 in FICA (Social Security and Medicare). The combined effective tax rate is approximately 12.1%.

Yes, if you physically work within municipal corporate boundaries of cities that charge a weekly City Service Fee. In Charleston ($3.00/week User Fee), net pay is $348.55/week ($3/wk fee). In Huntington ($5.00/week User Fee), net pay is $346.55/week ($5/wk fee). In cities like Martinsburg, Beckley, or Bridgeport with no municipal fee, you take home the full statewide baseline of $351.55/week.

$10.00/hr at full-time 40 hours per week for 52 weeks is exactly $20,800 per year before taxes. You can compare this with our detailed $20,000 after taxes in West Virginia analysis.