StateTakeHome Open Datasets (2026)

Open datasets computed and maintained by the StateTakeHome Data & Research Team. Every tax rate comes from an official publication (IRS, SSA, state Departments of Revenue, CRA, Revenu Québec) and carries an explicit tax-year vintage.

License: CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution ("Source: StateTakeHome.com").

Landing page for all datasets: https://statetakehome.com/data

1. US Take-Home Pay by State, 2026

• us-take-home-pay-by-state-2026.csv — 1,122 observations: 50 states + DC × 11 income levels ($30,000–$250,000) × 2 filing statuses (single, married filing jointly). Per row: federal income tax (Rev. Proc. 2025-32), state income tax (DOR-verified 2026 brackets), Social Security (2026 SSA wage base), Medicare + Additional Medicare Tax, state payroll extras (e.g. California SDI 1.3% uncapped per SB 951), take-home pay, effective and marginal rates.
• us-take-home-pay-ranking-100k-2026.csv — citable 51-row ranking at the $100,000 single benchmark.
• DOI (Zenodo): 10.5281/zenodo.21244030

2. US Property Taxes by State and County, 2026

• us-property-tax-by-state-2026.csv — effective property-tax rates (median taxes paid / median home value), median home values and median taxes for 50 states + DC, from Census ACS 2024 estimates. Rates range from 2.11% (New Jersey) to 0.27% (Hawaii).
• us-property-tax-by-county-2026.csv — same metrics for 3,125 counties.
• DOI (Zenodo): 10.5281/zenodo.21244037
• Interactive comparison: https://statetakehome.com/property-tax-by-state

3. Canada Take-Home Pay by Province, 2026

• ca-take-home-pay-by-province-2026.csv — 117 observations: 13 provinces and territories × 9 income levels (CAD 40,000–150,000, single). Per row: federal tax, provincial tax, CPP/QPP (incl. second-band), EI or QPIP, other contributions (e.g. Ontario Health Premium), take-home pay, effective rate. Quebec abatement applied.
• Interactive calculators: https://statetakehome.com/ca (EN) · https://statetakehome.com/ca/fr/ (FR)

Methodology

All figures are computed by the StateTakeHome calculation engine — deterministic and jurisdiction-agnostic, with per-jurisdiction inputs (brackets, deductions, wage bases, payroll extras) sourced exclusively from official publications and labeled with their tax-year vintage. Full write-up: https://statetakehome.com/methodology

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