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To: Beelzebubba
My part of FICA is 7.65% of my salary (of which, I believe, 1.65% goes for Medicare and the other for Social Security).

My employer has to pony up and match another 7.65%.
49 posted on 02/26/2004 9:37:11 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (I've got a fever...and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL! --rock legend, Bruce Dickinson)
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To: MNLDS
My part of FICA is 7.65% of my salary (of which, I believe, 1.65% goes for Medicare and the other for Social Security).

My employer has to pony up and match another 7.65%.


Which means that the tax on your being employed is about 15%.

The fact that your employer's accountant makes the pay stub look like you have a smaller gross, and half the FICA, is irrelevant.
78 posted on 02/27/2004 8:36:32 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your Friendly Freeper Patent Attorney)
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