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The total OASDI tax for 2024 is 12.4% of your income — the percentage has remained unchanged since 1990. The tax is split between the employee and the employer. So, you pay 6.2% and your ...
Two other suggested provision aims to apply the OASDI 12.4% payroll tax rate on earnings above $250,000 or $300,000 starting in 2023, which would tax all earnings once the taxable maximum exceeds ...
For self-employed people, the 2013 guidance from SSA indicates the full rate OASDI is 12.4% for 2013. See footnote a. at 2013 SSA.gov link. Returning to the traditional 6.2% OASDI employee share for 2013 effectively reduces take home pay by 2% and increases the maximum OASDI contribution by the same amount, returning it to traditional levels.
Contributions are not capped and represent 8.7% of income for employees (paid equally between the employee and the employer) and 8.1% for the self-employed. [4] People domiciled in Switzerland, but not engaged in gainful activity, are also required to pay contributions based on assets and income acquired in the form of an annuity.
It's normal for the earnings limit to increase most years, as it's designed to keep pace with cost-of-living changes. For context, 20 years ago in 2004, the limit was only $87,900 per year.
The general Social Security earnings-test limit in 2025 is $23,400 (up from $22,320 in 2024). You'll have $1 in Social Security withheld for every $2 you earn above that limit.
Program costs are projected to exceed non-interest income throughout the remainder of the 75-year period. The asset reserves of the combined OASDI Trust Funds increased by $25 billion in 2014 to a total of $2.79 trillion. During 2014, an estimated 166 million people had earnings covered by Social Security and paid payroll taxes.
The 6.2% OASDI tax, which funds various Social Security programs, applies only to the first $147,000 of a worker’s earnings for 2022. But this number is also tied to changes in inflation and is ...