Anderson (Madison County), Indiana Paycheck Calculator (2026)

Madison County sits in central Indiana northeast of Indianapolis, with Anderson as the county seat and largest city. The county levies a 1.75% County Income Tax on resident wages under Indiana's universal county-tax framework. Anderson was once a major General Motors manufacturing center, with the Anderson Operations facility (Inland Manufacturing, Delco Remy, Guide Lamp) employing tens of thousands at its peak; the plants closed in waves through the 1990s and 2000s, defining the city's post-industrial transition narrative. Anderson University, a private liberal-arts institution, anchors a downtown campus footprint. Mounds State Park, on the city's east side, preserves a series of Hopewell-era earthworks built between roughly 250 BC and 200 AD by the prehistoric Adena and Hopewell cultures; the Great Mound and the Fiddleback Mound are the largest. No payroll-funded disability tax appears on Indiana wages. Federal income tax for a single filer at $85,000 is $9,870, with Indiana state tax at $2,508, FICA combined at $6,503, and the Madison CIT line at $1,488, for take-home of $64,633. Plug a different salary into the calculator above to compare Madison County take-home against the Marion County line.