Ohio Child Support Calculator 2026

Gross, and annual. ORC 3119.01(C) defines income as annual gross income from all sources, before taxes. That makes Ohio different from net-income states like Pennsylvania, and it is why this calculator asks for yearly before-tax figures. Overtime and bonuses come in at the lesser of the three-year average or the most recent year (ORC 3119.05(D)).

More than for 1, but far from double: the JFS 07767 schedule has a separate column for each count. At $90,000 of combined annual income, the basic obligation is $12,570 a year for 1 child and $18,770 for 2, about 49 percent more. Pick the number of children this order covers in the calculator; children a parent supports outside the order are handled by the SB 196 multiple-family income deduction instead.

JFS 07767 Rev. 6/2023 was the first quadrennial update ORC 3119.021(C) requires. The income brackets were adjusted for inflation and the self-sufficiency reserve was reset to 116 percent of the 2023 federal poverty line. Orders from before the update do not change on their own; the new table applies when a case is calculated after it took effect.

SB 196, effective March 20, 2025, amended ORC 3119.05. The multiple-family credit now works from the schedule: compute the parent schedule amount for all children that parent must support, divide by the total children, multiply by the ones outside the order, and deduct that from income. The law also reworked child care sharing and the reserve worksheet steps. The longstanding child derivative-benefit deduction was retained and renumbered at current division (O).

In two layers. At 90 or more court-ordered overnights a year, ORC 3119.051 applies an automatic 10 percent reduction to the obligation; this tool computes it. At 147 or more, ORC 3119.231 requires the court to grant an additional deviation or state facts justifying refusal. That second layer has no formula, so the tool notes it instead of pricing it.

As part of the worksheet income adjustments. Line 9 first computes any other-child credit from unadjusted gross. Line 10 then records the total actual out-of-pocket premium for the ordered coverage after every subsidy, premium tax credit, and cost-sharing reduction. Line 11 records verified spousal support actually paid, and Lines 12–13 deduct their total once with a zero floor. The adjusted income shifts both the schedule row and income shares.

Sometimes, but the program name alone does not decide it. ORC 3119.05(O) and JFS 07768 Line 20 deduct a non-means-tested benefit actually received by children in this order from the obligation of the parent whose claim produced it, with a zero floor. SSI is means-tested and does not qualify. This calculator accepts only a documented annual amount tied to the paying parent’s claim; unclear classifications, partial-year or lump-sum awards, recoupments, multiple-order allocations, and benefits arising from the receiving parent’s claim require the official worksheet or CSEA determination.

JFS 07768 Line 21 first caps each child’s documented annual work- or training-related cost by age band: $16,116 for an infant, $14,254 for a toddler, $12,801 for preschool age, and $8,780 for school age through 12. Subsidies, reimbursements, and every available federal or state child-care tax credit are removed. The paying parent generally receives the worksheet-rounded income share of the remaining cost, less any amount that parent pays directly; if the paying parent’s Line 15 schedule cell is shaded, the lower of that income share or 50 percent applies. The calculator requires each of those facts and otherwise sends the case to the official worksheet.

A separate per-child yearly amount for medical costs, ordered under ORC 3119.30(C) and split by income shares. The April 2026 JFS 07766 manual lists $510.21 per child annually. This calculator reports the child-support line only and does not add or net the separate cash-medical obligations.

The schedule ends. ORC 3119.04 tells the court to set the amount case by case from the children’s needs and the standard of living, with the $336,000-row amount as a presumptive floor. The tool shows that floor and labels it as one; ordering more is squarely within the court discretion.

Yes, $80 a month under ORC 3119.06 as amended in 2024, for all children under the order combined. Courts and agencies can go lower or to zero in listed situations, like a disabled obligor, and obligations can suspend while an obligor receives means-tested assistance and complies with seek-work orders.

Ohio runs an official guideline estimator at ohiochildsupportcalculator.ohio.gov. This page uses the published schedule and supported worksheet lines, but it has not been matched to an identical-input official output. Compare the complete facts in the state calculator or worksheet; the court or CSEA determines the order.