Child Support If You Make $750 a Week in Wisconsin
Wisconsin has separate shared and split placement methods, and this page fixes primary placement so neither of those methods appears.
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Guideline child support scenarios at $750 a week
The paying parent earns $750 a week ($3,250.00 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 Wisconsin 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 | $552.50 | $812.50 | $942.50 |
| $2,000 a month | $552.50 | $812.50 | $942.50 |
| $4,000 a month | $552.50 | $812.50 | $942.50 |
| $6,000 a month | $552.50 | $812.50 | $942.50 |
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.
Primary placement, and the methods it avoids
Wisconsin DCF 150 provides separate methods for shared and split placement, each with its own placement-days requirement and calculation. The primary-placement percentage method is the standard path, and it is the one this page family exercises for every scenario.
Fixing primary placement means the shared and split methods are not applied, so the table below is the clean primary-placement percentage result. The disclosure matters because a parent in shared or split placement would run a different method.
Reading the primary-placement percentage
Every row below uses the same $750-a-week payer income, and the amount is fixed because the primary-placement percentage reads only the payer income. At this income one child is $552.50, two children $812.50, and three children $942.50.
A shared or split-placement parent would need the corresponding DCF 150 method, which is a different calculation from the primary percentage shown here.
What this estimate includes
- The primary-placement percentage for 1, 2, or 3 children
- A clear statement that the shared and split methods are not applied
- Results across four other-parent rows for comparison
What it leaves out
- The shared placement method
- The split placement method
- Child care and health insurance add-ons
Worth knowing
The primary-placement baseline is the single assumption that shapes this page, because the shared and split methods are materially different paths.
The flat rows are the payer-only percentage working exactly as designed, and they are shown so the reader sees the honest result.
Frequently asked questions
What is the primary-placement baseline?
It assumes the paying parent does not have shared or split placement, so the DCF 150 primary-placement percentage method applies. This page family fixes that for every Wisconsin scenario.
What are the shared and split methods?
They are separate DCF 150 methods with their own placement-days requirements, used when the parents share placement or split the children. Neither is exercised on this page.
Why is every other-parent row the same at $750 a week?
The primary-placement percentage reads only the paying parent income, so the other parent income never changes the result.
How are the figures at this income calculated?
The payer monthly income of $3,250 falls under the DCF 150 standard, producing $552.50 for one child, $812.50 for two, and $942.50 for three.
What would a shared placement case look like?
A shared placement case would run the DCF 150 shared method, which uses the placement days and can produce a different obligation than the primary percentage.
Where can I run the shared or split method?
The full Wisconsin child support calculator on this site accepts the placement type, and DCF 150 linked in the sources describes all the methods.
About the numbers on this page
Every figure in the table above comes from running the real Wisconsin child support engine on this site, the same engine and data pack behind the full Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin 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.