except social security and medicare other taxes depends on your tax filing status too like single, married, with dependents et al. 6.14 % social security in first 93K rest are for everything 1.40% medicate 1.00%-8.00% on STATE 10.00% - 33% for Federal simple example for a single earning 100K/year paid biweekly GROSS: 3846.15 SS TAX: 236.15 MEDIC : 53.84 STATE : 230.77 FEDER : 846.15 UNEMP: 22.15 [ only in CA] ToTAL DEDUCTION: 1389.06 NET : 2457.09 for more information refer to irs.gov [ they have a publication in payroll taxes] publication ** [ 15 or sth like that ] then search for state tax and get the similar doc (O: ==================================================== as always what do i know (O: