West Virginia Wage Garnishment Calculator
West Virginia’s suggestee execution takes at most 20% of wages after taxes and never leaves you less than 50 times the federal minimum — $362.50 a week.
The suggestee execution
to an amount equal to twenty percent thereof and no more, but in no event shall the payments in satisfaction of such an execution reduce the amount payable to the judgment debtor to an amount per week that is less than fifty times the federal minimum hourly wage then in effect.
A Charleston weekly check
A Charleston worker with $560.00 gross and $75.00 in taxes keeps at least 50 hours of the federal minimum, $362.50. The execution may take the lesser of 20% of after-tax pay ($97.00) and the amount above that floor ($122.50): $97.00.
The one-year lien and priority
- A suggestee execution can issue only if your wages after state and federal taxes exceed $362.50 in a week.§1
- It becomes a continuing levy for one year after issuance unless vacated or modified sooner.§1
- Only one execution is satisfied at a time; any amount left over after the senior one is paid goes to the next in priority.§1