About TakeHomeBase

TakeHomeBase is a payroll planning toolkit for US workers — paycheck estimates, overtime math, time cards, and pay schedule comparisons. The kind of math you redo every pay period and still want to double-check before payroll closes.

Everything runs in your browser. No account, no saved inputs, no email gate. When the IRS or SSA publishes a new bracket, wage base, or payroll parameter, we update the maintained data and note the tax year on each result so you know which rules you ran.

Where the numbers come from

Federal brackets, standard deductions, Social Security wage bases, overtime assumptions, and payroll estimate notes are loaded from maintained source files backed by IRS, SSA, DOL, and state payroll references — not scraped from random calculators. Every assumption and simplification is listed on our data sources & methodology page. Federal tax parameters were last verified in July 2026.

We also publish short guides that explain the concepts behind the calculators —useful if you want to understand overtime, paycheck timing, or gross-vs-net pay, not a replacement for payroll or tax advice.

What this is not

Not tax advice, not payroll software, not a CPA, and not your employer's official check stub. These are planning numbers — useful for checking take-home pay, overtime, and hours worked before a paycheck arrives. For filing or anything complicated, talk to someone licensed.

Contact & corrections

Found a wrong number or a bug? Email contact@takehomebase.com. We treat incorrect IRS figures as urgent — corrections ship fast once verified against the source notice.