Hermitage to Sharon
Pennsylvania Act 32 local earned income tax · MERCER to MERCER County · tax year 2026
Home rate
2.25%
Hermitage, residents
Work rate
1%
Sharon, non-residents
You pay
2.25%
the higher of the two
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above the home rate
What this commute costs you
no extra local taxHermitage already charges its residents more than Sharon charges commuters, so the home rate governs and the job adds nothing at all. You pay the solid bar only — Pennsylvania charges the higher of the two rates, never their sum. Local earned income tax only; state, federal and payroll tax apply on top.
What this commute actually costs
- Nothing changes for this commute. A resident of Hermitage pays about 2.25% either way. It makes no difference whether they work at home or travel to Sharon. The home rate is the higher of the two, and the higher one wins. That is $1,350 a year.
- Few other routes into Sharon appear in this data, so there is little to compare at that end. The other direction has plenty. Hermitage sends workers to 1 places, and this is number 1 by size.
- The Hermitage to Sharon commute is tax-neutral. Hermitage's resident rate of about 2.25% is not exceeded by Sharon's non-resident rate, so under the state's rule the resident rate applies and the effective figure is about 2.25% — $1,350 annually at the reference salary. Withholding is remitted to the residence in full and the work location receives no share.
- Sharon draws few recorded inflows, so cross-origin comparison is thin at the destination end. The origin is better covered: Hermitage appears as the home municipality for 1 tracked destinations, of which this ranks 1 by worker count.
Where the money goes
A $75,000 salary
- Federal income tax$7,670
- Social Security and Medicare$5,738
- State income tax$2,303
- Yours$59,290
| Federal income tax10.23% | $7,670 |
|---|---|
| Social Security and Medicare7.65% | $5,738 |
| State income tax3.07% | $2,303 |
| Yours79.05% | $59,290 |
The arithmetic, side by side
| If you worked in Hermitage | $1,350 |
|---|---|
| Working in Sharon | $1,350 |
| Difference | $0 |
On a reference salary of $60,000 a year. The local tax is flat, so every figure scales with your own pay.
What this page does not cover
- A common worry, answered. You do not pay Hermitage and Sharon both. Only one rate applies, the higher of the two. The two councils then sort out between themselves who gets what, and your bill is unaffected.
- Everything here is the local earned income tax and nothing else. State income tax applies on top, as do federal tax and Social Security. None of those change when you cross a municipal line between Hermitage and Sharon. This page is about the layer that does.
- All the dollar amounts rest on one assumed salary. It is stated rather than measured, because nobody publishes average pay for Hermitage. The local tax is a flat percentage. Scale every figure to your own salary and the Sharon conclusion holds.
- Two practical cautions. Postal addresses and taxing boundaries do not always agree. Your post may say Hermitage while your taxing municipality is a different one. Pennsylvania publishes an official lookup to settle it. The same caution applies at the Sharon end. Philadelphia is a special case too, with its own wage tax.
- Workers commuting from Hermitage to Sharon are subject to one rate, not two. The statute directs the employer to withhold the greater of the resident and non-resident rates; the allocation between the two taxing bodies is a remittance mechanic invisible to the employee. Treating the two rates as cumulative is the most common misreading of the statute.
- Figures cover the local earned income tax exclusively. Pennsylvania's flat state income tax, federal income tax and FICA apply in addition and are invariant to the Hermitage–Sharon municipal boundary, which is precisely why they are excluded: isolating the layer that responds to the commute is the point of the comparison.
- Monetary figures derive from a single stated salary assumption; no published wage series covers Pennsylvania municipalities such as Hermitage. The flat structure of the local tax means the Sharon comparison is scale-invariant, so the rate difference rather than the dollar difference is the transferable result.
- Two caveats bear on accuracy. First, postal addresses and municipal taxing boundaries diverge frequently in Pennsylvania, so a Hermitage address should be confirmed against the DCED municipal lookup before relying on the Hermitage rate. Second, Philadelphia administers its wage tax outside this framework, with its own resident and non-resident rates and its own credit arrangements, so any pairing touching it should be checked against the city's own schedule.
Questions people ask
Do I pay local tax twice — once where I work and once where I live?
The rates compete rather than stack. about 2.25% where you live, about 1% where you work, and you pay the greater of the two.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
Nothing extra. The tax is redirected rather than increased, so this particular crossing costs you no more than working in Hermitage would.
Which town's rate am I actually paying?
Hermitage sets it. Your residence rate is the larger, so it governs regardless of where the job is.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
It is a smaller route: 642 workers. That affects how representative it is, not whether the tax arithmetic applies — the rules are the same on a quiet road as a busy one.
How does Pennsylvania's local earned income tax law allocate liability between two districts?
Pennsylvania's local earned income tax law assigns the higher of the residence rate (about 2.25%) and the non-resident work rate (about 1%); liabilities are never summed. The employer withholds at the governing rate and remits through the work district's collector, which then distributes to the residence district.
Why is the marginal cost of this crossing zero?
Marginal liability from working outside the residence jurisdiction is zero on this route. The crossing alters the distribution of revenue between jurisdictions but not the employee's total. ⚠️ This is route-specific and does not generalise to other pairs in the same dataset.
Which district's rate governs on this route?
The residence rate equals or exceeds the work district's non-resident rate and therefore governs. Working outside the residence district does not increase employee liability on this route; it affects only inter-district distribution.
What is the measurement basis for a route of this size?
Route volume is 642 workers per Census LODES, above the publication floor but below the dataset's upper quartile. Liability is determined by jurisdictional rates and residence rules alone; commuter volume has no bearing on it and is reported only as context.