Child Support If You Make $1,000 a Week in Arizona
The figures below assume the paying parent has no parenting time at all. Arizona treats that as the starting point, and every day of parenting time a parent actually has moves the number down from here.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $1000 a week
The paying parent earns $1000 a week ($4,333.33 a month) in every cell below. The other parent's monthly income changes across rows, and the number of children changes across columns; both genuinely change the result.Every figure is computed with the real Arizona guideline engine, the same one behind the full calculator, not a lookup table built for this page.
| Other parent's income | 1 child | 2 children | 3 children |
|---|---|---|---|
| No reported income | $806.00 | $1,215.00 | $1,458.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $667.11 | $994.84 | $1,176.84 |
| $4,000 a month | $582.40 | $862.68 | $1,014.52 |
| $6,000 a month | $544.74 | $809.35 | $954.03 |
Every dollar figure is a monthly amount, the presumptive guideline result before add-ons like child care or health insurance and before any court deviation. "Not available" means the engine behind this site declined to compute that specific combination rather than guess; the reason is shown next to it.
What the Parenting Time Table does to these numbers
After Arizona sets a basic obligation from the schedule, it applies a separate adjustment keyed to the paying parent parenting-time days per year. The guideline lays this out as a series of bands: 0 to 19 days carries no adjustment at all, 20 to 34 days carries 2.5 percent, and the bands step upward through 10 percent at 84 days, 20 percent at 129 days, and 40 percent at 163 days.
This page fixes the paying parent at 0 days, which lands in the first band and applies no reduction. That makes the table below an upper bound: a parent with a real parenting schedule will see a lower figure than the one shown here, and a parent at 164 days or more reaches the essentially-equal band, where the adjustment is 50 percent.
Treating these figures as a ceiling
Because the adjustment can only reduce the basic obligation and never increase it, every number in this table is the highest the guideline would produce at this income. A reader with any real parenting time should expect their own figure to fall below the matching cell.
The size of the drop depends on which band the day count falls into, and the bands are not evenly spaced. Moving from 129 days to 163 days changes the adjustment from 20 percent to 40 percent, a much steeper step than the early bands produce.
What this estimate includes
- The schedule lookup and proportional share at $4,333.33 a month
- A stated 0-day parenting-time assumption placing this page in band one
- The band structure that would apply to a real day count
What it leaves out
- Any Parenting Time Table reduction, since the day count here is zero
- The essentially-equal treatment at 164 or more days
- Add-ons such as health insurance or child care
Worth knowing
The band figures quoted here come from the guideline Parenting Time Table as implemented in this project Arizona data. A parent close to a band boundary should confirm the exact day count with their order, because a single day can move the adjustment a full step.
Because this page reports an unreduced figure, it is the most conservative reading of the guideline at this income. It should not be treated as a prediction of what a court will order for a parent who has meaningful parenting time.
Frequently asked questions
Why does this page assume zero parenting time?
The guideline requires a day count before it can run the adjustment, and this page family does not collect one. Zero is the guideline own first band rather than an invented value, and it is disclosed here so the figures can be read as an upper bound.
How much would real parenting time reduce my number?
It depends on the band. The guideline applies no reduction below 20 days, 2.5 percent from 20 to 34 days, 10 percent by 84 days, 20 percent by 129 days, and 40 percent by 163 days, with 50 percent once a parent reaches 164 days.
Can the adjustment ever raise the amount?
No. The Parenting Time Table reduces the basic obligation in proportion to the paying parent time with the children, so it moves the figure downward or leaves it unchanged.
What counts as a parenting-time day?
Arizona defines this in the guideline itself, and the count depends on the parenting plan rather than a simple overnight tally. A parent should enter the figure their own order or proposed plan supports on the full calculator.
Why does the amount still change across the rows?
The parenting-time adjustment is fixed at zero across this whole table, so the variation comes entirely from the income-shares step: a different other-parent income changes the combined total and the paying parent proportional share.
Is the self-support reserve involved at this income?
It is tested but does not bind. At $4,333.33 a month the income sits far above the 2026 reserve of $2,100.80, so the schedule result controls rather than the reserve ceiling.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Arizona child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Arizona child support calculator. Nothing on this page is a separate estimate or a reimplementation of the math. See the sources below for the statutes and official worksheets behind the Arizona guideline.
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Changelog: page first published as part of the child support by income series. Material changes are dated in the update log.