My husband makes more money than I do and we are filing married jointly. How do I go about filling out our W4's? Also we both started our jobs later this year not January

[Katerin86]

He started in March and makes a salary of 44k a year. I will start my job on November 1st and will be hourly at $15.50/hour. How do I go about filling out our W4's if we are filing "married jointly"? Also, by the end of the year, he will not have made 44k because he started in March of this year and I will only make about 5k by December 31st, totaling around 42k between both of us. Next year we will both start our jobs from January until December so we will make 73k jointly. For this tax season's W4's should we go based on the 40,000 - 49,999 bracket or should we go based on the 70,000 - 79,999, even though we will only make 42k jointly by the end of this year?

[fanfare]

Did you  read the Instructions for W-4 and find them confusing?

Each of you should check (c) box Married filing jointly and sign the form.

It sounds like you have no children so no dependents.

[Critter-3]

Use the Tax Withholding Estimator on the IRS web site to figure out what you and your husband should each put on the W-4 forms that you give to your employers. It's much easier than using the worksheets on the form. It will let you adjust your withholding to get the approximate refund amount that you want.

Tax Withholding Estimator