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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 ...
The good news is that not all income is subject to Social Security payroll taxes -- it's only up to a certain amount, called the "wage base limit." The wage base limit in 2024 is $168,600, so any ...
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 ...
When it comes to Social Security, though, once you hit the limit, called the wage base limit, then you are done paying the 12.4% payroll tax on the rest of your wages. The wage base limit for 2024 ...
[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).
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.
To determine the annual wage base limit, the SSA uses the national average wage index (NAWI), which measures the average annual wages for workers covered under Social Security. ... Wage Base Limit ...
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.