I heard sign on bonus gets taxed differently from regular income. So is it 50k or 70k??
75k
60k
It is taxed like normal income. In the specific pay check your company may tax you more or less, but when you do taxes at the end of the year it is just normal income. Given the above you can assume it is taxed at your marginal tax rate (likely 32 or 35 for federal + state which depends where you live)
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15#en_US_2019_publink1000202352 “””1. If you withheld income tax from an employee's regular wages in the current or immediately preceding calendar year, you can use one of the following methods for the supplemental wages. a. Withhold a flat 22% (no other percentage allowed). “””
It’s just a formula for federal income tax(state tax is usually different), and it’s just withholding part, the actual amount you owe is still up to you to figure out.
Remember, the tax brackets changed significantly in 2018. You can thank Trump for letting you keep more of your bonus than those hired in 2017. And if you live in CA, then you can thank your state for taking it all away!
You do realize that for the marginal tax bracket for income between 200-500k went up under Trump from 33% to 35% right? My guess is that most of this group including someone with a 100k signing bonus will make more than 200k in which case (unless they fall into random Trump loopholes) they will pay more in taxes.
^this. Under Trump, the withholding has gone down but the amount of tax due has gone up, pretty much guaranteeing that most in middle class will have an income tax due bill at the of year rather than a refund. Big-brain genius!
Every single person I know at Google (pretty much all of us make between 200-500) was hit with a monster Federal tax bill for 2018. I owed $7500. The state of CA actually gave me a refund!
That's just due to poor/no planning. I owed 2k fed and had a 3k state refund. Check out go/withholding-calculator if you want to plan better for 2019.
Please note the difference between taxed and tax withholding. All income is just income (capital gains have different rates) but salary, bonus, vesting stock all are taxed the same, but have different withholding. Typically bonus gets a higher withholding
I just went and looked at my sign on bonus in my pay history. $50k bonus, net $29,560. Extrapolate from there to your case.
Mine converted to 66k in hand but I paid almost 10k in tax returns, so not sure if it came from signing or RSU underwithholding.
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