Take-home pay in St. Louis: $5,678/mo

Take-home pay in St. Louis is $5,678 a month on $90,995 a year, for one adult, renting a 1-bedroom. Leftover after rent and the modelled month is $2,661. Missouri taxes wage income on a bracket schedule, plus a 1.00% city wage tax. Local pay follows this metro's wage index. St. Louis is a hand-reviewed metro.

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These figures start from one adult in a one-bedroom, on local pay of about $98,500. Change the job, the pay, or how many bedrooms you need, and leftover changes. This is a monthly budget, not a cost-of-living index.

This household's paycheck

Gross is $90,995 a year. Tax lines below are the annual bill; take-home and leftover are monthly. The St. Louis paycheck page is this leftover with the map.

Take-home pay in St. Louis
Gross, annual	$90,995
Federal income tax	$11,633
Payroll tax	$6,961
State income tax	$3,350
Local wage tax	$910
Take-home / month	$5,678
Leftover / month	$2,661

Take-home if you earn it here

One adult, one bedroom, salary paid in St. Louis so the wage is not rescaled. State tax is the annual bill. Leftover subtracts that one-bedroom rent and the modelled month.

Take-home by salary in St. Louis
Salary	State tax	Take-home	Leftover
$60,000	$1,893	$3,980/mo	$963/mo
$80,000	$2,833	$5,086/mo	$2,069/mo
$120,000	$4,713	$7,238/mo	$4,221/mo
$160,000	$6,593	$9,327/mo	$6,310/mo

Take-home for a job in St. Louis

All job take-home pages

Leftover is take-home after federal, state and city wage tax, minus asking rent at the bedroom count you set, minus a modelled month of groceries, utilities, healthcare, transport and childcare. It is not a cost-of-living index and not a moving quote. Change the job, remote versus local pay, or bedrooms and the ranking is a different city. How the math works · Leftover vs a COL index · Why a cheaper COL% can still lose leftover.