The nine states with no income tax, and what they actually save you
A $75,000 salary in each of the nine no-income-tax states, compared against the highest-tax states, for the 2026 tax year.
Nine states levy no income tax on wages: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wyoming. Two of those deserve a footnote — Washington taxes capital gains and New Hampshire used to tax interest and dividends — but neither takes anything from a paycheck.
The saving is not a percentage you can quote in the abstract; it depends entirely on which state you are comparing against. Here is what a resident of a no-tax state keeps, against the five states that take the most, at each salary level.
What a no-tax state saves you, by salary
| Salary | No-tax state | Minnesota | Delaware | Maine | Hawaii | Oregon |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $40,000 | $34,320 | −$1,321 | −$1,543 | −$1,528 | −$1,325 | −$2,663 |
| $60,000 | $50,390 | −$2,557 | −$2,653 | −$2,868 | −$2,756 | −$4,413 |
| $75,000 | $61,593 | −$3,577 | −$3,609 | −$3,881 | −$3,896 | −$5,726 |
| $100,000 | $79,180 | −$5,277 | −$5,259 | −$5,654 | −$5,796 | −$7,913 |
| $150,000 | $113,791 | −$8,942 | −$8,559 | −$9,229 | −$9,644 | −$12,542 |
The saving scales with income, which is the part most summaries leave out. At $40,000 the gap is small enough to be swallowed by one month of higher rent. At $150,000 it is real money every year.
The honest caveat
States without an income tax raise the money somewhere else. Texas and New Hampshire have some of the highest effective property tax rates in the country; Washington and Tennessee lean on sales tax. This site measures the income tax line precisely and makes no claim about the others — treat the figures above as one input, not a verdict.