Tax Rates
Payroll Terms
Payroll/Tax Forms
Payroll Deductions
Misc
100

Medicare Tax Rate

What is 1.45%

100

Hours paid at 1.5 the normal rate.

What is Overtime?

100

Form used to determine an employees federal tax withholding.

What is W-4?

100

The type of deductions that reduce gross wages.

What is pre-tax/section 125?

100

Boxes 3 on Form W-2.

What are Social Security wages?

200

Social Security Tax Rate

What is 6.2%?

200

Total wages paid to an employee before taxes.

What are Gross earnings?

200

Quarterly tax form used to report Federal, EE and ER Social Security, and EE and ER Medicare. 

What is 941?

200

The 2023 401K contribution limit.

What is $22,500 or $30,000 including catch-up?

200

Federal Minimum Wage

What is $7.25?

300

The new employer SUI rate for CA?

What is 3.4% SUI / .1% Training?

300

Term for wages minus any mandatory deductions.  

What is Disposable Income earnings?

300

Employer's summary copy of W-2s. 

What is W-3?

300

This type of order take precedence over most garnishments and tax levies.

What is Child Support order?

300

Group Term Life becomes taxable once it meets this threshold.

What is over $50,000?

400

The wage base threshold that the additional .9% Medicare Tax starts being withheld at.

What is $200,000?

400

Term used to describe earnings that are paid to an employee.  

What is Net Pay?

400

Right To Work Form

What is Form I-9?

400

401K reduces these 2 tax types.

What are Federal and State Withholding?

400

This gets reported in Box 12 Code DD on the W-2.

What is ER Sponsored Health?

500

What is the 2023 Social Security wage limit?

What is $160,200?

500

Term used to describe earnings that increase an employees taxable wages but are not paid to the employee.

What is Imputed Income?

500

Form a client receives from the IRS after registering with the agency.  

What is SS-4?

500

The annual HSA Limit for 2023.  

What is $3,850 for self and $7,750 for family?

500

Taxes withheld on a 1099 are called this.

What is Backup Withholding?