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In 2024, you'd have owed a 6.2% tax on all of your income up to $168,600, and anything above that wouldn't have been subject to Social Security tax. In 2025, with the wage base limit going up to ...
In 2024, the wage base limit is $168,600. This means any wages a person earns above that amount are not subject to Social Security tax. In 2025, the wage base limit will be $176,100.
The costs of the program are covered by contributions to the State Fund in the form of SDI tax paid by employees, optionally by employers. Employee contributions to the state fund are deductible as state taxes. [2] The table below summarizes the contribution rates, taxable wage limits and maximum withholdings per employee since 1996:
The new wage base limit, which will be in effect in 2025, is $176,100, up from the $168,600 limit in 2024. This means more income of some workers will be subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
The Social Security tax rate is 12.4% of your paycheck, and another 2.9% goes to Medicare, for a total FICA tax rate of 15.3%. If that seems steep, it’s because you aren’t paying the entirety.
In 2020, the Social Security Wage Base was $137,700 and in 2021 was $142,800; the Social Security tax rate was 6.20% paid by the employee and 6.20% paid by the employer. [1] [2] A person with $10,000 of gross income had $620.00 withheld as Social Security tax from his check and the employer sent an additional $620.00. A person with $130,000 of ...
In 2024, the wage base limit is $168,600, and the amount in past years was the inflation-adjusted equivalent of that. Seniors who earned that much for 35 or more years and who waited until 70 ...
[a] [9] The taxation limit in 2020 was $137,700 of gross compensation, resulting in a maximum Social Security tax for 2020 of $8,537.40. [7] This limit, known as the Social Security Wage Base , goes up each year based on average national wages and, in general, at a faster rate than the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U).