Years You
Worked |
Your Taxed
Social Security
Earnings
|
Your Taxed
Medicare
Earnings |
1985 |
580 |
580 |
1986 |
1,380 |
1,380 |
1987 |
2,455 |
2,455 |
1988 |
4,116 |
4,116 |
1989 |
5,618 |
5,618 |
1990 |
6,978 |
6,978 |
1991 |
8,639 |
8,639 |
1992 |
11,212 |
11,212 |
1993 |
13,289 |
13,289 |
1994 |
15,285 |
15,285 |
1995 |
17,396 |
17,396 |
1996 |
19,634 |
19,634 |
1997 |
22,084 |
22,084 |
1998 |
24,407 |
24,407 |
1999 |
26,782 |
26,782 |
2000 |
29,181 |
29,181 |
2001 |
30,699 |
30,699 |
2002 |
31,719 |
31,719 |
2003 |
33,102 |
33,102 |
2004 |
35,235 |
35,235 |
2005 |
37,096 |
37,096 |
| 2006 |
39,352 |
39,352 |
| 2007 |
41,667 |
41,667 |
| 2008 |
43,117 |
43,117 |
| 2009 |
Not yet recorded |
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You and your family may be eligible for valuable
benefits:
When you die, your family may be eligible to receive
survivors benefits.
Social Security may help you if you
become disabled—even at a young age.
A young person who has worked and
paid Social Security taxes in as few as two years can be eligible
for disability benefits.
Social Security credits you earn move with you from job to job throughout your career.
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| Total Social Security and Medicare
taxes paid over your working career through the last year reported
on the chart above: |
Estimated taxes paid for Social Security:
You paid: $31,027
Your employers paid: $31,027 |
Estimated taxes paid for Medicare:
You paid: $7,625
Your employers paid: $7,625 |
Note: You currently pay 6.2
percent of your salary, up to $106,800, in Social Security taxes
and 1.45 percent in Medicare taxes on your entire salary. Your employer
also pays 6.2 percent in Social Security taxes and 1.45 percent in
Medicare taxes for you. If you are self-employed, you pay the combined
employee and employer amount of 12.4 percent in Social Security taxes
and 2.9 percent in Medicare taxes on your net earnings.
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Help Us Keep Your Earnings Record Accurate |
You, your
employer and Social Security share responsibility for the
accuracy of your earnings record. Since you began working, we
recorded your reported earnings under your name and Social Security
number. We have updated your record each time your employer (or
you, if you’re self-employed) reported your earnings.
Remember, it’s
your earnings, not the amount of taxes you paid or the number
of credits you’ve earned, that determine your benefit amount.
When we figure that amount, we base it on your average earnings
over your lifetime. If our records are wrong, you may not receive
all the benefits to which you’re entitled.
Review this chart carefully using
your own records to make sure our information is correct and
that we’ve recorded each year you worked. You’re
the only person who can look at the earnings chart and know whether
it is complete and correct.
Some or all of
your earnings from
last year may not be shown on your Statement.
It could be that we |
still
were processing last year’s earnings reports when your Statement was
prepared. Your complete earnings for last year will be shown
on next year’s Statement. Note: If
you worked for more than one employer during any year, or if
you had both earnings and self-employment income, we combined
your earnings for the year.
There’s
a limit on the amount of earnings on which you pay Social Security
taxes each year. The limit increases yearly. Earnings
above the limit will not appear on your earnings chart as
Social Security earnings. (For Medicare taxes,
the maximum earnings amount began rising in 1991. Since 1994, all of
your earnings are taxed for Medicare.)
Call us right
away at 1-800-772-1213 (7 a.m.–7 p.m. your local time)
if any earnings for years before
last year are shown incorrectly.
Please have your W-2 or tax return for those years available.
(If you live outside the U.S., follow the directions at the bottom
of the last page)
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