Child Support If You Make $1,000 a Week in Georgia
Georgia added a formulaic Parenting Time Adjustment in 2026, and this page explains it honestly even though its no-order baseline does not apply it to the numbers below.
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If you make $1,000 a week in Georgia, how much child support do you pay?
Estimated guideline support is about $554.39 to $788.00 a month for one child, $820.68 to $1,196.00 for two children, and $964.10 to $1,441.00 for three children. For one child that is roughly $128 to $182 a week. Where you fall in each range depends on the other parent’s income, from no reported income to $6,000 a month in the table below. These are estimates before child care, health insurance, and any court deviation. See every scenario in the table.
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 Georgia 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 | $788.00 | $1,196.00 | $1,441.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $708.16 | $1,068.05 | $1,279.47 |
| $4,000 a month | $612.56 | $919.88 | $1,096.68 |
| $6,000 a month | $554.39 | $820.68 | $964.10 |
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.
The Parenting Time Adjustment Georgia added
The Parenting Time Adjustment under O.C.G.A. 19-6-15(g) took effect January 1, 2026 and uses court-ordered parenting days. The enacted clause sequence is not safe to simplify into a published numeric formula without a reproduced result from the current Georgia Commission calculator, so SupportDecode does not do so.
This page family runs on a no-order baseline, meaning no court-ordered parenting days are supplied, so the adjustment is not exercised in the table below. Every figure shown is the BCSO share before any parenting-time reduction. The full calculator currently refuses positive-day cases until an official Commission result is reproduced, rather than publishing an unconfirmed interpretation.
Reading the base numbers with the adjustment in mind
Every row below is the BCSO share with no parenting-time adjustment. The adjustment would only be relevant if court-ordered parenting days were supplied, which this page does not do. This keeps the two steps separate: the table shows the supported base result, while the full calculator stops rather than estimating the unresolved positive-day branch.
What this estimate includes
- The BCSO table lookup for 1, 2, or 3 children at $1,000 a week
- The proportional share of the obligation assigned to the paying parent
- A clear statement that the Parenting Time Adjustment is not exercised here
What it leaves out
- The Parenting Time Adjustment itself, which needs court-ordered parenting days
- The Low-Income Adjustment, not reached at this income
- Add-ons such as child care and health insurance
Worth knowing
The Parenting Time Adjustment and the Low-Income Adjustment both took effect January 1, 2026, completing the two-phase rollout SB 454 started with the BCSO table in July 2024.
This page describes the adjustment without applying it, which is the honest treatment for a scenario table that does not supply parenting days.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Parenting Time Adjustment do?
Georgia describes it as a separate parenting-time step after the BCSO lookup. SupportDecode does not publish a positive-day result until the enacted clause sequence can be checked against a reproduced result from the current official calculator.
Why is the adjustment not in the table below?
The adjustment requires court-ordered parenting days for each parent. This page family uses a no-order baseline with no days supplied, so the engine does not exercise the adjustment and the table shows the base BCSO share.
Would the numbers change with a real parenting schedule?
They may. A real schedule must be entered in the official Georgia Commission calculator. SupportDecode currently stops positive-day cases and does not claim a result for that branch.
How does the formula weight each parent’s time?
The statute raises each parent's court-ordered days to the 2.5 power and then gives a multi-step calculation. Because the literal sequence creates a result that conflicts with the statute's explanatory language, use the official calculator rather than a simplified web formula.
Does the Low-Income Adjustment apply at $1,000 a week?
No. At $4,333.33 a month the payer is above the range the Low-Income Adjustment table addresses, so the ordinary BCSO lookup applies in every cell.
What is the $4,333.33 monthly figure?
$1,000 a week times 52 weeks divided by 12 months equals $4,333.33 a month. This page feeds that monthly gross figure to the Georgia engine.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Georgia child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Georgia 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 Georgia 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.