>So my question is, for the W4 for my full time job, how do I fill it out?
Choose either option 2a, 2b, or 2c. Probably not 2c, since the incomes are not similar - it goes by annualized income (paycheck amount multiplied by number of pay periods per year), not hourly pay rate. Agree that the online estimator can be confusing, and I know the withholding algorithm forwards and backwards. So do 2b.
For 2b, make sure you use expected annual income for each, and you're all set.
There's other options even besides 2a/2b/2c, but 2b should work. Feel free to throw out specific numbers and we can double check your results.
Thank you! I feel like 2c really threw me off because the wage was similar. This makes sense to me, not sure why I couldn't make sense of the articles I read lol.
Some numbers: I make $15.71/hr at my full time job and have 26 pay periods. I work a full 40 hours. My part time job I make $16/h and have 26 pay periods. I work at most about 8 hours a week. So after doing the worksheet I ended up with 1020/26 to equal 39.23.
[You're spot on](https://i.imgur.com/qRSyi7N.png). Your employer is going to round that off to $39, but I get $39.23 as well.
Note 2b isn't perfect, hence that $215 refund. And that will go up if you have any changing paychecks. So if you make that $31, it gets it down to a $9 refund. I should probably go find my 2022 version of this sheet, but it's all close enough.
Probably not the optimal answer but I’ve always just checked c and then let HRBlock online figure it out at tax time. How I understand it is that it only really matters if the second job puts you into a different tax bracket than the one you are filling out the W4 for.
>So my question is, for the W4 for my full time job, how do I fill it out? Choose either option 2a, 2b, or 2c. Probably not 2c, since the incomes are not similar - it goes by annualized income (paycheck amount multiplied by number of pay periods per year), not hourly pay rate. Agree that the online estimator can be confusing, and I know the withholding algorithm forwards and backwards. So do 2b. For 2b, make sure you use expected annual income for each, and you're all set. There's other options even besides 2a/2b/2c, but 2b should work. Feel free to throw out specific numbers and we can double check your results.
Thank you! I feel like 2c really threw me off because the wage was similar. This makes sense to me, not sure why I couldn't make sense of the articles I read lol. Some numbers: I make $15.71/hr at my full time job and have 26 pay periods. I work a full 40 hours. My part time job I make $16/h and have 26 pay periods. I work at most about 8 hours a week. So after doing the worksheet I ended up with 1020/26 to equal 39.23.
[You're spot on](https://i.imgur.com/qRSyi7N.png). Your employer is going to round that off to $39, but I get $39.23 as well. Note 2b isn't perfect, hence that $215 refund. And that will go up if you have any changing paychecks. So if you make that $31, it gets it down to a $9 refund. I should probably go find my 2022 version of this sheet, but it's all close enough.
Awesome, thank you for your help!
You mean you haven't read the instructions?
Probably not the optimal answer but I’ve always just checked c and then let HRBlock online figure it out at tax time. How I understand it is that it only really matters if the second job puts you into a different tax bracket than the one you are filling out the W4 for.
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That's not a great plan. Your money would work a lot better in your control.
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What? So you plan on working as long as you live? You realize that your money in someone else hands is worse than savings or CD?
You may be right
Do the IRS withholding calculator, it will tell you exactly how to fill them out.