Updated May 26, 2026 — calculators reflect IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32 and OBBBA bracket extensions for tax year 2026.Methodology · Changelog · Editorial policy
Press

Press, citations, and how to reach us

A short page covering the questions journalists, researchers, and other publishers ask us most often. If you don’t find what you need here, email press@calcyet.com and one of the editorial team will get back to you within two business days. Outside business hours, allow a day longer.

What CalcYet is, in two paragraphs

CalcYet is an independent editorial publisher of US payroll and tax-planning calculators, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The company was founded in late 2024 by a small editorial team of credentialed tax professionals — two Certified Public Accountants and an IRS Enrolled Agent — after years of frustration with the “paycheck calculator” corner of the open web, where the math was often wrong and the methodology was almost never published.

The site publishes free calculators for take-home pay across all fifty states plus DC, federal withholding (W-4), 1099 self-employment tax, overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, bonus withholding, and salary-hourly conversions. Each calculator is paired with editorial explanations of the underlying methodology and links to the relevant IRS publication, Treasury regulation, or state agency page. The business is supported by display advertising under Google AdSense program policies, with the advertising operation walled off from editorial decisions. The full structure is documented in our editorial policy.

How to cite a CalcYet article or calculator

We’re happy to be cited — please do, especially for the figures we maintain in our changelog and our glossary. The format we prefer:

Suggested format (APA-ish)
Author, Last name. (Year, Month Day). Article title. CalcYet. URL

For example:

Thompson, M. (2026, March 4). I’ve read 4,000 pay stubs. Here’s what yours is actually telling you. CalcYet. https://calcyet.com/blog/paycheck-stub-explained-2026

For citations of a calculator rather than an article, the format we use internally is:

CalcYet Editorial Team. (n.d.). Take-Home Pay Calculator. CalcYet. https://calcyet.com/take-home-pay

You don’t need permission to quote or paraphrase. We appreciate a link back to the source page when feasible.

Editorial team available for comment

The three named authors at CalcYet are available for on-record comment on tax and payroll stories. We prefer email contact for first outreach, with deadline included.

Payroll / withholding
Maria Thompson, CPA
Lead Author. CPA licensed in California and Texas. 12+ years in payroll-tax compliance. Available for comment on W-4 mechanics, FICA, multi-state withholding, paystub interpretation.
Self-employed / 1099
David Chen, EA
IRS Enrolled Agent. 9 years advising freelancers and single-member LLCs. Available for comment on quarterly estimated tax, Schedule C deductions, the convenience-of-employer rule, and self-employment tax mechanics.
Brackets / credits / deductions
Sarah Patel, MST
MS in Taxation. Background in compensation analysis and federal tax planning. Available for comment on federal brackets, capital gains, the credit-versus-deduction distinction, and individual tax planning.

What we’ll comment on, and what we won’t

We are happy to discuss factual tax mechanics, methodology behind specific calculators, IRS guidance and interpretation, common payroll errors we’ve diagnosed, and historical context for changes covered in our changelog. We will also point you at the relevant primary source — we’d rather have you cite the IRS directly than us, on facts we got from the IRS.

We don’t comment on individual taxpayer situations (privilege and licensure constraints), pending legislation we haven’t read in operational form, the merits of specific tax-software products unless we’ve formally reviewed them, political framings of tax policy, or speculation about future rate changes. Our editorial mandate is descriptive accuracy, not advocacy.

Logo and brand

Press use of the CalcYet name and the mark is permitted in editorial context (articles, citations, attributions, screenshots of calculator output) without prior approval. We ask that you preserve the capitalization (“CalcYet,” not “Calcyet” or “CALCYET”), avoid modifying or stretching the logo mark, and use sufficient contrast for legibility.

The mark is the small square gradient tile in the header of every page on the site. A clean PNG version is available at /apple-touch-icon.png for press use. We do not sell or license merchandise.

Recent independent uses of CalcYet content

This section will list third-party references when we have them. As a relatively new publisher, we don’t have a deep press archive yet — we’d rather show an empty list than fabricate one. If you cite or quote us, drop a note to press@calcyet.com and we’ll add the link here.

Editorial integrity and advertising

CalcYet is supported by Google AdSense display advertising. The advertising operation has no contact with editorial decisions. No advertiser sees an article before publication. We don’t accept paid placements, paid links, paid mentions, or sponsored content. The full disclosure is in our editorial policy.

Contact for press inquiries: press@calcyet.com. For factual corrections: corrections@calcyet.com. For everything else: /contact.