How the New Mexico estimate works
Enter gross pay for one pay period, federal W-4 adjustments, and the state details shown above. Federal withholding follows Publication 15-T. New Mexico selects the current official Single, Married, or Head of Household percentage table for the actual pay period and adds the amount requested on the separate W-4 kept for state withholding. If the entered month-to-date calculated total remains below $1, the state monthly minimum makes current withholding zero. The $2.25 workers compensation assessment is a separate quarterly employee deduction when confirmed for this paycheck.
Example: At $1,000 of weekly wages, the current Married table applies $12.77 plus 4.3% of the amount over $769, producing $22.70 before an additional state-only W-4 amount. The narrative example printed earlier in FYI-104 still cites prior thresholds, so WageFrame follows the current tables printed on pages 5–8. The calculator does not assume any unentered benefit deduction or invent a tax result.
Weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, and monthly are the supported paycheck frequencies. “Annual salary” is an earnings input and the annual view is a simple period multiplication; neither is an annual payroll-period method. The special Form W-4 adjustment for nonresident aliens is not modeled.
What is the New Mexico quarterly paycheck fee? A covered employee working on the quarter's last working day pays a $2.25 workers compensation assessment. It is separate from income-tax withholding and should be selected only on the paycheck used for that quarterly deduction—not on every paycheck.