Child Support If You Make $1,000 a Week in Vermont
Vermont applies a 588-row intact-family expenditure table to combined available income, and at $1,000 a week that table is what produces the numbers below.
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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 Vermont 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 | $818.00 | $1,229.00 | $1,479.00 |
| $2,000 a month | $698.85 | $1,027.76 | $1,208.00 |
| $4,000 a month | $643.09 | $946.92 | $1,105.45 |
| $6,000 a month | $617.99 | $910.24 | $1,064.36 |
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 intact-family expenditure table at work
Vermont converts both parents gross income to available figures using its custody-specific tax tables, combines them, and then applies a 588-row intact-family expenditure table to set the expenditure base for the children. That table is the step that turns available income into a support obligation.
At $1,000 a week, $4,333.33 a month, the intact-family table produces a full set of computed cells. For one child the obligation falls from $818 to $617.99 as the other parent income rises, with the two and three-child columns moving more.
Reading the intact-family table result
Every cell below is the intact-family table result on the sole-arrangement path. The tax conversion runs first, and the expenditure table then produces the obligation from the combined available income.
The other parent income changes the combined available figure, which is why the four rows differ at this income.
What this estimate includes
- The 588-row intact-family expenditure table lookup
- The custody-specific tax conversion that precedes it
- Results for 1, 2, or 3 children across four other-parent incomes
What it leaves out
- The 150% shared-time offset, not used at the sole baseline
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
- Court-ordered deviations from the guideline amount
Worth knowing
The intact-family table is the distinctive second step of the Vermont calculation, and naming it explains how the available income becomes a support number.
At this income the table is fully computed, which makes it a clean reference for the intact-family approach at a mid-level income.
Frequently asked questions
What is the intact-family expenditure table?
It is a 588-row table Vermont applies to the combined available income of the parents, setting the expenditure base that the support obligation is drawn from.
Does the other parent income change the result at $1,000 a week?
Yes. For one child the obligation falls from $818 to $617.99 as the other parent income rises from none to $6,000 a month, with the two and three-child columns moving more.
How does the tax conversion fit in?
The conversion runs first, turning gross income into available income, and the intact-family table then applies to the combined available figure.
Is the sole-arrangement baseline still fixed?
Yes. The shared-time offset is not applied, so the intact-family table runs on the sole path.
Is every cell computed at this income?
Yes. The available incomes on this page fall within the tables, so each cell is a normal lookup with no refusal.
Where can I see the intact-family table?
The 2024 Vermont intact-family table is linked in the sources for this page, and the full Vermont child support calculator applies it with both parents incomes.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Vermont child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Vermont 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 Vermont 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.