Total FICA taxes on individual workers are 7.65 percent of income; 6.2 percent goes to fund the nation's Social Security system, while 1.45 percent goes to Medicare.
Add the Social Security total to the medicare total and you come up with
your total FICA deduction, which is a 7.65 percent deduction from every paycheck or 15.3 percent for the self - employed.
Not exact matches
So if you earn $ 100,000 per year, and you pay $ 10,000 in federal income tax, $ 5,000 in state income tax, and $ 7,500 in
FICA tax, your
total taxes are $ 22,500.
Until this change is made,
FICA withholding should be levied on
total income, without any upper cutoff point.
You might be in the 25 % marginal tax bracket for federal income taxes, but on top of this you might add, say 7 % for state income taxes, 7.65 % for
FICA, and say, 2 % for municipal income taxes, for a
total marginal tax rate of 41.65 %.
Employees and employers share these
FICA taxes, with the employer deducting the employee share (one - half the
total due) from employee wages / salaries, and the employer paying the other half.
In your case, when the
total is about 300K - you indeed will not get any
FICA savings with such a division other than some of the medicare.
If you're in the 28 % marginal tax rate on federal income taxes, 8 % on
FICA (roughly) and another 8 % on state income taxes, or 44 % in
total, you'll need to earn about $ 893 to cover the interest costs.