Reverse Calculator

Instead of income → payment, solve payment → income. Great for budgeting, negotiating, or understanding what a court-ordered figure implies about the underlying income.

Reverse calculator — target → required income

Enter the monthly support you’re planning around and we’ll estimate the income that produces it under Texas’s Percentage of Income guideline.

State

Target monthly support ($)

Number of children

Enter the paying parent’s net (after-tax/deductions) monthly income.

Estimated required monthly income$3,600per month ($43,200/year)

Your target$900.00/mo

Resulting support$900.00/mo

Net after support$2,699.98/mo

Planning estimate only — courts apply the official worksheet, add-ons, and deviations.

How support scales with income in Texas

Reference curve at the inputs above. Use it to sanity-check the reverse result.

Not legal or financial advice. This estimate follows the state’s statutory guideline formula but cannot capture every factor a court considers (health insurance, childcare, prior orders, deviations, imputed income).