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Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana Paycheck Calculator (2026)

Enter your annual salary below to see your Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana take-home pay after federal, state, FICA, and city/local taxes for 2026.

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Tippecanoe County's residence-based CIT means Purdue employees commuting from outside the county pay their home-county rate; the engine applies the Tippecanoe rate when Tippecanoe is selected as residence.

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Yes. Tippecanoe County, home to Purdue University in West Lafayette, levies a 1.15% County Income Tax (CIT) on resident wages under Indiana's universal county-tax framework. At $85,000 single, a Tippecanoe County resident takes home $65,143 after federal tax, FICA, Indiana's flat state line, and the Tippecanoe CIT.

Tippecanoe County sits in west-central Indiana along the Wabash River, with Lafayette as the county seat and West Lafayette directly across the river. The county levies a 1.15% County Income Tax on resident wages under Indiana's universal county-tax framework. Purdue University, one of the largest US public universities by STEM enrollment, dominates West Lafayette and is the county's largest single employer; Purdue Research Park hosts spin-out companies and partnerships across engineering, agriculture, and aerospace. Subaru Indiana Automotive in Lafayette is Subaru's only manufacturing plant in North America, producing the Outback, Ascent, and Impreza. Caterpillar operates a large engine plant in Lafayette. The Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, fought by William Henry Harrison's forces against Tecumseh's confederacy, is the county's namesake battlefield event (the actual battlefield is in the next county over). No state disability deduction applies in Indiana. At $85,000, the federal load lands at $9,870 for a single filer, with Indiana state tax at $2,508, FICA combined at $6,503, and the Tippecanoe CIT line at $978, for take-home of $65,143. Layer pre-tax contributions or filing status changes into the calculator above to see the Tippecanoe County line respond.

$85,000 single filer take-home comparison

Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana

$65,100

Indiana (no city tax)

$66,100

Texas (no income tax)

$68,600

Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana take-home is -$1,000 vs the state-only figure and -$3,500 vs the no-income-tax baseline.

Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana local tax breakdown

Local bracket schedule applied by the calculator for 2026.

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What this estimate includes

This calculator computes Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana take-home pay using 2026 federal brackets after the standard deduction, FICA contributions (Social Security up to the annual wage base, Medicare on all wages, plus the Additional Medicare Tax above the filing-status threshold), Indiana's state income tax schedule, the Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana local income tax. It excludes employer-side payroll taxes, custom W-4 elections, supplemental-wage handling for bonuses or equity vesting, and income from sources other than W-2 wages. Per-city resident and non-resident rules are described in the prose above where they differ.

Lafayette (Tippecanoe County), Indiana paycheck FAQ

What is the federal tax bill on $85,000 single in Tippecanoe County?
At $85,000, the federal load lands at $9,870 for a single filer, with the marginal slice in the 22% bracket after the standard deduction. Federal computation is identical in every state, so a Tippecanoe County single filer sees the same federal line as a Marion County or Lake County counterpart on the same gross.
How is Tippecanoe County's CIT structured?
Tippecanoe County's 1.15% CIT applies to all Indiana residents whose home county is Tippecanoe. Purdue University employees who live in the county pay the rate on their campus wages, while faculty or staff commuting from neighboring counties pay their home county's rate. At $85,000, the Tippecanoe CIT line resolves to $978.
What if I work at Purdue but live in another Indiana county?
A Purdue employee whose permanent residence is in another Indiana county (Carroll, Clinton, White, Warren) pays their home county's CIT on their Purdue wages, not Tippecanoe's 1.15%. Indiana's residence-based framework keeps the CIT outcome tied to the worker's home county on January 1 of the tax year, regardless of where they work.
How much does a 401(k) contribution save at $85,000 in Tippecanoe County?
At $85,000, the combined federal-plus-Indiana marginal rate sits at 24.95%, so each $1,000 of pre-tax 401(k) deferral saves about that share in federal-plus-state-plus-CIT tax. Tippecanoe County's CIT applies to the same taxable income base, so the three lines shrink together with each deferred dollar.
What changes for married filing jointly, head of household, or filing separately at $85,000 in Tippecanoe County?
Two-earner joint households at $85,000 take home $69,173, $4,030 more the single estimate. Wider federal MFJ brackets and the doubled federal standard deduction drive most of the change. Indiana's flat state rate is filing-status-neutral, and the Tippecanoe 1.15% CIT scales per worker across all four filing statuses. Head of Household clears about $68,065, around $2,922 more than Single, and combined two-return MFS take-home runs about $4,030 less than MFJ.
How does Tippecanoe County compare to St. Joseph County?
St. Joseph County (South Bend, home to Notre Dame) levies a CIT above Tippecanoe's 1.15%. The two are Indiana's most prominent college-town counties (Purdue here, Notre Dame there); the CIT-rate gap shows up clearly in the resident paycheck for an academic worker moving between the two. Both share Indiana's flat state line.

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2026-06-25