Yukon Income Tax Calculator 2026
Enter your salary to see your 2026 federal and Yukon income tax, CPP and EI, and what you actually take home.
2026 rates · verified Oct 21–23, 2026
Your take-home pay
$47,885.39 a year
$1,841.75 every two weeks
| Gross income | $60,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Federal income tax | −$5,338.29 |
| Yukon income tax | −$2,436.57 |
| CPP | −$3,361.75 |
| CPP2 | −$0.00 |
| EI | −$978.00 |
| CPP on self-employment (both halves) | $0.00 |
| Take-home pay | $47,885.39 |
- Take-home
- Income tax
- CPP
- EI
- Average tax rate
- 13%
- Marginal tax rate
- 29.5%
Estimated refund
Your inputs
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Confirmed for 2027: the employee CPP rate drops from 5.95% to 5.75% on earnings up to $76,700, and the EI rate rises from 1.63% to 1.64% on earnings up to $70,800. The calculators move to 2027 rates from January 1, once the rest of the 2027 figures are published. Sources: Finance Canada (Bill C-30), CRA’s YMPE table, CRA’s EI rates.
Your tax brackets
Federal: your taxable income of $59,435 reaches the 20.5% bracket; credits cover the first $21,728, and the tax is $5,338.29. Yukon: your taxable income of $59,435 reaches the 9% bracket; credits cover the first $21,728, and the tax is $2,436.57.
Tax from each bracket
| Bracket | Rate | Your income in it | Covered by credits | Tax |
|---|
How this is calculated
We use the same formulas employers use for payroll: CRA’s T4127 Payroll Deductions Formulas, 122nd edition, effective January 1, 2026. We tested the formulas against CRA’s Payroll Deductions Online Calculator for every province and territory, and they match to the cent.
- CPP: 5.95% of your earnings above $3,500, up to $74,600. The most anyone pays is $4,230.45.
- CPP2: 4% of earnings between $74,600 and $85,000, up to $416.00.
- EI: 1.63% of earnings up to $68,900, up to $1,123.07.
- Taxable income: your income minus the “enhanced” part of CPP (the 1% first additional contribution) and all of CPP2. Those parts are a tax deduction, not a credit.
- Tax before credits: each slice of taxable income is taxed at its bracket’s rate, federally and by the Yukon (tables below).
- Federal credits at 14%: the basic personal amount ($16,452, reduced gradually to $14,829 for net income between $181,440 and $258,482), the Canada employment amount ($1,501), the base part of your CPP, and your EI.
- Yukon credits at 6.4%, Yukon’s lowest rate: the Yukon basic personal amount ($16,452), the base part of your CPP, and your EI, and Yukon’s employment amount.
- Yukon’s own rules:
- Yukon’s basic personal amount follows the federal one: $16,452, reduced to $14,829 for net income between $181,440 and $258,482.
- Yukon has its own Canada employment amount credit: 6.4% of up to $1,501 of employment income.
- Take-home pay = income − federal tax − Yukon tax − CPP − CPP2 − EI.
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 to $58,523 | 14% |
| $58,523.01 to $117,045 | 20.5% |
| $117,045.01 to $181,440 | 26% |
| $181,440.01 to $258,482 | 29% |
| Over $258,482 | 33% |
| Taxable income | Rate |
|---|---|
| $0 to $58,523 | 6.4% |
| $58,523.01 to $117,045 | 9% |
| $117,045.01 to $181,440 | 10.9% |
| $181,440.01 to $500,000 | 12.8% |
| Over $500,000 | 15% |
Worked example: $60,000 salary
An employee in the Yukon earning $60,000 a year with no other income or deductions:
| CPP: 5.95% × ($60,000 − $3,500) | $3,361.75 |
|---|---|
| EI: 1.63% × $60,000 | $978.00 |
| Taxable income: $60,000 − enhanced CPP of $565.00 | $59,435.00 |
| Federal tax after credits | $5,338.29 |
| Yukon tax after credits | $2,436.57 |
| Take-home pay | $47,885.39 |
Federal tax before credits is 14% of the first $58,523 plus 20.5% of the remaining $912.00, less 14% credits on the basic personal amount, the Canada employment amount, base CPP and EI. In total, 79.8% of the salary reaches your bank account.
Yukon tax on $60,000, step by step
| 6.4% on the first $58,523 | $3,745.47 |
|---|---|
| 9% on the next $912 (above $58,523) | $82.08 |
| Tax before credits | $3,827.55 |
| Basic personal amount credit: 6.4% × $16,452.00 | −$1,052.93 |
| CPP and EI credits: 6.4% × ($2,796.75 base CPP + $978.00 EI) | −$241.58 |
| Yukon employment amount: 6.4% × $1,501.00 | −$96.06 |
| Rounding in CRA’s formula | −$0.41 |
| Yukon tax | $2,436.57 |
CRA’s payroll formula uses bracket constants rounded to the dollar, so its tax before credits is $3,827.15, $0.40 less than the slices above. The other $0.01 in the rounding line comes from rounding each step to the cent.
The Yukon follows the federal personal amounts
The Yukon doesn’t set its own basic personal amount: it uses the federal one, $16,452 for 2026, reduced to $14,829 for net income between $181,440 and $258,482. Yukon credits are worth 6.4%, so the phase-out costs high earners up to $103.87 of Yukon tax.
| Net income | Basic personal amount | Extra Yukon tax |
|---|---|---|
| $181,440 | $16,452.00 | $0.00 |
| $219,961 | $15,640.50 | $51.94 |
| $258,482 | $14,829.00 | $103.87 |
It also has its own Canada employment amount, the only province or territory in CRA’s payroll formulas with one: $1,501, the same as the federal amount, worth $96.06 of Yukon tax for anyone with at least that much employment income. And its top rate of 15% only starts at $500,000 of taxable income.
Take-home pay on $60,000 in other provinces
- Alberta: $47,690.66
- British Columbia: $47,754.95
- Manitoba: $45,772.91
- New Brunswick: $46,047.30
- Newfoundland and Labrador: $45,762.47
- Northwest Territories: $47,937.94
- Nova Scotia: $44,726.05
- Nunavut: $48,772.86
- Ontario: $47,340.23
- Prince Edward Island: $45,446.67
- Quebec: $45,328.29
- Saskatchewan: $46,519.94
Self-employment, capital gains and dividends
Open “Self-employment and investment income” to add them. Each kind of income is taxed differently, and all three examples below start from the same $60,000.
Self-employment income
When you work for yourself you pay both halves of CPP: 11.9% of net earnings between $3,500 and $74,600 (up to $8,460.90), plus 8% CPP2 up to $85,000 (up to $832.00). You pay it when you file. Half of the base part is a 14% credit (line 31000); the other half and all the enhanced parts are deducted from income (line 22200). There’s no EI and no Canada employment amount.
On $60,000 of net business income: CPP $6,723.50, a deduction of $3,926.75 so taxable income is $56,073.25, federal tax $5,155.43 and Yukon tax$2,356.77. That leaves $45,764.30, compared with $47,885.39 on the same salary.
Capital gains
Only 50% of a capital gain is taxable (the proposed two-thirds rate was cancelled in March 2025). With a $10,000 gain on top of a $60,000 salary, $5,000.00 is added to taxable income, which adds $1,475.00 of tax. No CPP or EI is charged on it.
Dividends
Dividends from Canadian companies are “grossed up” (eligible dividends by 38%, others by 15%) and taxed at your normal rates. Dividend tax credits then come off: federally 15.0198% and 9.0301% of the grossed-up amount, and in the Yukon 12.02% and 0.67%. The credits can bring tax to zero, but not below.
$10,000 of eligible dividends on top of a $60,000 salary becomes $13,800.00 of taxable income and adds $339.51 of tax (federal $6,094.56, Yukon $2,019.81). The same $10,000 of other (non-eligible) dividends adds $2,276.99.
What changed in Yukon’s income tax for 2026
Yukon’s brackets and credit amounts were indexed by 2% for 2026.
- The Yukon government carbon price rebate for individuals ended; its final payment was in April 2025.
- New for 2025: a refundable fertility and surrogacy tax credit of 40% of eligible costs, up to $10,000, and a higher alternative minimum tax rate of 43.90%.
Source: CRA – T4127 Payroll Deductions Formulas, 122nd edition (January 2026): provincial and territorial changes, Tables 8.2 and 8.23; checked October 23, 2026.
What the Yukon Budget 2026 means for your taxes
Tabled March 19, 2026. Measures for individuals:
- The budget announced no changes to personal income tax. It forecasts an $81.8 million deficit and is described by the government as a first step back toward balance.
- The Yukon’s basic personal amount and employment amount keep following the federal ones, so they rose with federal indexing for 2026.
Source: Government of Yukon – Budget 2026 begins road to fiscal recovery (March 19, 2026); checked October 23, 2026.
Yukon benefits paid through your tax return
The CRA pays these for the Yukon, based on the income on your tax return, so they depend on filing every year. Amounts are for July 2026 to June 2027; none of them is included in the take-home pay above.
- Yukon child benefit
- $80.50 a month for each child under 18, reduced once adjusted family net income passes $35,000. Paid with the Canada child benefit.
Source: CRA – Provincial and territorial programs: Yukon; checked October 23, 2026.
Yukon tax credits worth knowing about
This calculator only uses the basic personal amounts. These Yukon credits can lower your tax further, or come back as a refund. Details are from the 2025 tax year, the latest return.
- Children’s fitness tax credit
- A refundable credit on up to $1,000 per child of physical activity program fees, including equipment and uniforms, for children under 16.
- Children’s arts amount
- Up to $500 per child for arts, cultural, recreational or developmental programs.
- Yukon First Nations income tax credit
- For residents of the settlement land of a self-governing Yukon First Nation, claimed on Form YT432.
Source: CRA – Yukon tax information for 2025; checked October 23, 2026.
What this calculator assumes
- Your job income is from one employer in the Yukon, for the full year. Self-employment income is your net profit (a loss isn’t supported). Capital gains leave out losses carried forward, the lifetime capital gains exemption and the principal residence exemption. Dividends are from Canadian corporations.
- You claim only the basic personal amounts on your TD1 forms. Other credits (tuition, disability, dependants) would lower your tax.
- It doesn’t include pension contributions, union dues, benefits, or other payroll deductions. You can add an RRSP deduction under “RRSP and tax already paid”.
- The refund or amount owing compares the tax you enter with the tax on this income alone. Other income, other credits, or CPP and EI overpaid by working for two employers would change it.
- It doesn’t include the federal top-up tax credit, which only applies to people claiming more than $58,523 in non-refundable credits, or refundable benefits like the Canada workers benefit.
- Pay-period amounts are the annual amount divided evenly.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between my average and marginal tax rate?
Your average rate is your total income tax divided by your income: what you pay overall. Your marginal rate is the tax on your next dollar, which is what matters for a raise, overtime or an RRSP deduction. At $100,000 in Yukon the average rate is 19.2% but the marginal rate is 29.5%, so a $1,000 RRSP contribution would cut your tax by about $295.
Will I get a tax refund?
Open “RRSP and tax already paid” and enter the income tax from box 22 of your T4 (or the year-to-date tax on your last pay stub). We compare it with the tax for the year: if more was deducted, the difference is your estimated refund. An RRSP deduction is the usual reason: on $60,000 in the Yukon, a $5,000 RRSP deduction cuts tax from $7,774.86 to $6,672.28, so $1,102.58 comes back as a refund if your employer didn’t take it into account.
How much is take-home pay on $40,000 a year in the Yukon?
On $40,000 a year you take home about $33,254.70, or $2,771.23 a month. Income tax is $3,921.55 ($1,230.29 of it Yukon tax), CPP is $2,171.75 and EI is $652.00. Yukon’s basic personal amount is $16,452, so that much income is free of Yukon tax.
Why does the Yukon’s basic personal amount change with income?
The Yukon sets its basic personal amount equal to the federal one, including the federal phase-out: the full amount below the federal threshold, shrinking to the minimum for high incomes. CRA’s payroll formulas use the federal amount (BPAF) for the Yukon directly.
Why is my paycheque different from this calculator?
Your employer may deduct things this calculator leaves out, such as a pension plan, union dues, benefits or extra tax you asked for on your TD1. Pay-period amounts here are the annual figure divided evenly; a real paycheque is calculated one period at a time, so it can differ by a few dollars. If you earn more than the CPP and EI maximums, those deductions stop partway through the year, so your later paycheques are bigger.
Rates for tax year 2026, verified to · Page updated
Sources
Federal
- CRA – 2025 Schedule 8 (5000-S8), Part 4, lines 10–17; canada.ca – CPP contributions (2026: 11.9%, maximum $8,460.90; CPP2 8%, maximum $832) · checked
- CRA – 2025 Federal Worksheet (5000-D1), lines 12000/12010 (138%, 115%) and line 40425 (15.0198%, 9.0301%); Income Tax Act s. 121 · checked
- CRA – 2025 Worksheet YT428 (5011-D), line 61520 · checked
- Prime Minister’s Office – Prime Minister Carney cancels proposed capital gains tax increase (March 21, 2025); CRA administers the enacted one-half rate · checked
- CRA – Provincial and territorial programs: Yukon · checked
- CRA – Yukon tax information for 2025 · checked