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Old 08-23-2007, 08:29 AM
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How much does payroll tax cost as percentage of total wages paid out?

I am in the process of hiring a new employee and wanted to know the additional cost in terms of payroll taxes that I would have to incur.

If my employee was being paid $3,000 per month what is the payroll tax liability amount that I would have to pay?

Are there any other costs that I am required to pay?



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Old 01-14-2008, 12:49 PM
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How much does payroll tax cost as percentage of total wages paid out?

Payroll costs generally include the following cost components:

1. Employers share of Social Security Taxes.
This is currently at 6.2%. Your employee payroll does not exceed the FICA limit of $102,000 for 2008, hence all his wages are subject to this tax.
2. Employers share of Medicare Taxes.
This is currently at 1.45%. There is no income limit for this tax.
3. Federal unemployement cost of FUTA taxes.
This could be as low as 1%
4. State Unemployement taxes.
This amount varies according to each State but is also very low approx 1%.

The rough estimate could be around 10% of the total payroll in your case, $36,000 x 10% = $3,600 as employer portion of payroll taxes.

Other Non-Payroll related expenses.
1. State Workmans Compensation.
This could be as low as 4% of Annual payroll for States other than California, where that could be as high as 10%.
2. Payroll processing fee.
This is about $30 for bi-weekly payrolls for 1 employee, plus preparation of quarterly returns and year end W-2 processing another $150-200)

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