If I Make $1,000 a Week, How Much Child Support Do I Pay?

$1,000-a-week child support by state

Each state page compares 1, 2, and 3 children across several other-parent incomes. The figures come from the same state guideline engines as the full calculators, with every assumption printed beside the table.

Why every page here is a table, not a number

Search results and calculator ads often promise one figure for "child support on $50,000 a year" or similar. That figure cannot be honest on its own. Every state guideline on this site reads the number of children, and most read both parents’ income before producing a number. Texas is the one exception among the states below: it uses only the paying parent income, and its pages say so directly rather than padding the table with a variable that does nothing.

Each page below shows four other-parent income scenarios across three child counts, twelve figures in total, computed with the same guideline engine that powers the full calculators on this site. Where an engine cannot verify a schedule row for a given combination, the page says so instead of guessing.

Choose a state and a weekly income

The $1,000/week pages are linked in the state list above. Use this table for the four other weekly-income comparisons.

13 states not in this series, and why

The 13 states below all require a parent’s net income, not gross pay, as a direct input to their guideline formula. This series only ever knows a hypothetical gross weekly paycheck, and turning that into the specific net figure each of these states requires would mean inventing a tax and deduction calculation the state formula does not define. Each state below has its own page explaining the specific reason, with a link to its full calculator instead.

• California
• Connecticut
• Florida
• Iowa
• Michigan
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• North Dakota
• Pennsylvania
• South Dakota
• Washington
• Wyoming

About this series

The 38 states above all use a guideline formula built on gross income for both parents, so this series never has to invent a tax conversion the underlying data pack does not define; where a state's real formula needs one extra fixed detail this generic table cannot vary, such as a custody arrangement or an overnight count, that state's pages disclose the specific assumption used rather than hiding it.