Child Support If You Make $1,500 a Week in Arizona
Arizona does not calculate a basic obligation from your exact combined income. It reads the closest row on a printed schedule, and every combined income on this page lands on a row taken directly from that schedule.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $1500 a week
The paying parent earns $1500 a week ($6,500.00 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 | $988.00 | $1,475.00 | $1,749.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $867.94 | $1,285.47 | $1,510.29 |
| $4,000 a month | $809.71 | $1,202.19 | $1,416.38 |
| $6,000 a month | $758.16 | $1,114.88 | $1,300.00 |
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.
A printed row, not a formula
The Arizona schedule of basic support obligations lists rows from $750 to $30,000 of combined monthly income in $50 increments. The guideline does not blend two neighbouring rows when an income falls between them. It selects the nearest row outright, and where an income sits exactly halfway between two rows the lookup rounds up.
At $1,500 a week the paying parent brings $6,500.00 a month, and the combined totals in this table are $6,500.00, $8,500.00, $10,500.00 and $12,500.00. Each of those is a printed row transcribed from the official schedule, so every figure below is a direct row reading rather than a value worked out between rows.
What the row spacing means in practice
A parent comparing their own figure to this table should expect the schedule to move in steps rather than along a smooth curve. Income changes smaller than the distance to the next row leave the basic obligation untouched, and the final amount then moves only because the proportional split has shifted.
The split itself is continuous even though the lookup is not. Two parents whose combined income lands on the same row still owe different amounts if their individual shares of that combined figure differ.
What this estimate includes
- A direct reading of the official schedule row for each combined total
- The proportional split of that row between both parents
- A disclosed 0-day parenting-time baseline under primary custody
What it leaves out
- Interpolation between two adjacent schedule rows, which Arizona does not use
- The Parenting Time Table adjustment, which needs real days per year
- Add-ons such as health insurance or child care
Worth knowing
Because the lookup is row-based, the practical effect of a reported income change depends on where that income sits relative to the nearest $50 boundary rather than on the size of the change alone.
A combined income falling outside the $750 to $30,000 range would have no row to select, which is a different situation from the ones this page tests.
Frequently asked questions
Does Arizona interpolate between schedule rows?
No. The guideline selects the nearest listed row for the combined monthly income rather than blending the two rows on either side, and an income sitting exactly between two rows rounds up.
Why might a small raise not change my support amount?
If the raise is not large enough to move the combined income to a different $50 row, the basic obligation stays the same. The final figure can still shift slightly, because a raise changes each parent proportional share of the combined total.
Are the figures on this page exact schedule amounts?
Yes. Every combined income this page tests falls on a row transcribed from the official schedule, so no cell here is worked out between rows. Other pages in this series mark any figure that had to be approximated.
What combined incomes does this page actually test?
The paying parent contributes $6,500.00 a month in every row, and the other parent scenarios add nothing, $2,000, $4,000, or $6,000, producing combined totals of $6,500.00, $8,500.00, $10,500.00 and $12,500.00.
Does the nearest-row rule ever work against the paying parent?
It can move the obligation either up or down relative to an exact calculation, depending on which side of the midpoint the combined income falls. The rounding-up rule applies only at an exact tie.
Would real parenting time change these figures?
Yes. This page fixes the paying parent at 0 days, so no Parenting Time Table reduction is applied. A real day count would reduce the basic obligation before the split is calculated.
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.