Child Support If You Make $1,500 a Week in North Carolina
At $1,500 a week the payer income starts to rival the other-parent scenarios, and how North Carolina combines both figures becomes the interesting part.
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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 North Carolina 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 | $1,044.00 | $1,573.00 | $1,881.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $904.65 | $1,353.53 | $1,607.41 |
| $4,000 a month | $832.62 | $1,230.05 | $1,441.14 |
| $6,000 a month | $778.96 | $1,155.44 | $1,360.32 |
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.
How the combined income comes together
North Carolina Worksheet A uses combined monthly gross income from both parents as the input to the AOC schedule. Each parent gross income is added together, the schedule returns the basic obligation for that total and the child count, and the obligation is split by each parent share.
At $1,500 a week, $6,500 a month, the payer is no longer the smaller earner in most rows, so the combined totals on this page are more balanced than at lower weekly incomes. For one child the obligation runs from $1,043 down to $780.87 as the other parent income rises.
Reading the balanced combined totals
Every row below combines the same $6,500 a month payer income with a different other-parent figure, then runs the schedule and the Worksheet A split. As the other parent income rises, the payer share of a larger combined obligation changes in a way this page makes visible.
The fixed Worksheet A baseline stays constant, so the movement across the rows is entirely the income response.
What this estimate includes
- The combined-gross-income step that drives the schedule
- The Worksheet A apportionment for each combined total
- Results for 1, 2, or 3 children across four other-parent incomes
What it leaves out
- Worksheet B and C calculations for shared or split custody
- Add-ons such as child care and health insurance
- Court-ordered deviations from the guideline amount
Worth knowing
The balanced combined totals on this page are a useful contrast to the lower-income pages, where the payer is a smaller share of the combined income and the apportionment behaves differently.
Because the schedule is indexed on combined gross income, a reader should always enter the other parent income when checking their own case, not just their own paycheck.
Frequently asked questions
How does North Carolina combine the incomes?
Worksheet A adds both parents monthly gross income into one combined figure, looks up the basic obligation on the AOC schedule, and then apportions it by each parent share of that combined income.
Does the other parent income change the result at $1,500 a week?
Yes. For one child the obligation falls from $1,043 to $780.87 as the other parent income rises from none to $6,000 a month, with the two and three-child columns moving more.
Why does the payer obligation fall as the other parent earns more?
Raising the other parent income raises the combined total and the schedule obligation, but it also lowers the payer share of that total. In the range shown, the share effect wins out for the payer dollar figure.
Is $1,500 a week still inside the AOC schedule?
Yes. The combined income on this page stays within the published schedule, so every cell is a standard lookup with no extrapolation.
Does the gross income basis matter?
Yes. North Carolina uses gross income, not a net figure, for the schedule input. This page feeds the gross monthly equivalent of the weekly pay.
Where can I run the combined income myself?
The full North Carolina child support calculator on this site accepts both parents incomes, and the AOC-A-162 worksheet linked in the sources shows the combined step.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real North Carolina child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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.