Pittsburgh to O'Hara Township
Pennsylvania Act 32 local earned income tax · ALLEGHENY to ALLEGHENY County · tax year 2026
Home rate
3%
Pittsburgh, residents
Work rate
0%
O'Hara Township, non-residents
You pay
3%
the higher of the two
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above the home rate
What this commute costs you
no extra local taxPittsburgh already charges its residents more than O'Hara Township 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
- Good news for this commute. Working in O'Hara Township costs you nothing extra. Pittsburgh charges residents about 3%, at least as much as O'Hara Township asks of people who work there but live elsewhere. The higher rate wins, so your home rate is simply the rate. That is $1,800 a year, wherever you work.
- A busy route. O'Hara Township takes about 1,305 workers from Pittsburgh, which puts it 6 out of 23 destinations for the municipality. Not a corner case.
- For the Pittsburgh to O'Hara Township commute the residence governs. Pittsburgh's resident rate of about 3% equals or exceeds O'Hara Township's non-resident rate, so Pennsylvania's greater-of test resolves to the resident rate and the effective burden is about 3%, or $1,800 at the reference salary. The workplace adds nothing; the entire amount is remitted to the residence. This is the majority outcome and the one most commuters need confirmed.
- O'Hara Township ranks 6 of 23 destinations recorded for Pittsburgh, at 1,305 workers. This places the route among the municipality's primary employment links and gives the rate treatment above broad application.
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 Pittsburgh | $1,800 |
|---|---|
| Working in O'Hara Township | $1,800 |
| 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 Pittsburgh and O'Hara Township 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.
- Only one tax is on this page. It is the local earned income tax that Pittsburgh and O'Hara Township levy. State tax, federal tax and Social Security all still apply. All three are the same wherever in Pennsylvania you work.
- Sixty thousand a year is a benchmark. It is not a guess at what people in Pittsburgh earn. No published wage figure exists for single municipalities. The rate is the durable part of this page. The dollars scale straight up and down with whatever you earn in O'Hara Township.
- Two practical cautions. Postal addresses and taxing boundaries do not always agree. Your post may say Pittsburgh while your taxing municipality is a different one. Pennsylvania publishes an official lookup to settle it. The same caution applies at the O'Hara Township end. Philadelphia is a special case too, with its own wage tax.
- Workers commuting from Pittsburgh to O'Hara Township 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.
- The scope here is the municipal earned income tax alone. State, federal and payroll taxes are unaffected by the choice between Pittsburgh and O'Hara Township and are therefore outside the model. A total tax position requires adding them; a comparison of the two locations does not.
- The reference salary is a stated benchmark, not an estimate of Pittsburgh earnings, for which no municipal-level published source exists. The local earned income tax is proportional, so all dollar figures for the O'Hara Township commute scale linearly with income and the rate comparison holds at every salary.
- Two caveats bear on accuracy. First, postal addresses and municipal taxing boundaries diverge frequently in Pennsylvania, so a Pittsburgh address should be confirmed against the DCED municipal lookup before relying on the Pittsburgh 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 3% where you live, about 0% where you work, and you pay the greater of the two.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
Not a cent on this one. The crossing changes where the money is sent, not how much of it leaves, so your total matches a stay-at-home commute.
Which town's rate am I actually paying?
Pittsburgh sets it. Your residence rate is the larger, so it governs regardless of where the job is.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
Yes — 1,305 people make this exact journey, according to the federal employment survey that tracks where workers live against where they work. Routes below a volume floor are not published, so a page existing here means the commute is real and measured.
The town I work in charges nothing — does that help me?
Working somewhere untaxed leaves the residence claim untouched: Pittsburgh still levies about 3% on you.
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 3%) and the non-resident work rate (about 0%); 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 basis for including this route?
Route volume is 1,305 workers, sourced from Census LODES origin-destination data. Pairs below the publication threshold are excluded rather than imputed, so page existence reflects measured commuting volume.
What is the effect of a zero work-district rate?
A zero work-district rate eliminates the source-based claim but leaves residence-based liability intact at about 3%. Residence liability is unaffected by where earnings are sourced.