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- From: erd@kumiss.cmhnet.org (Ethan Dicks)
- Subject: Re: fast-track failures
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 12:06:56 EDT
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- Shari L Brooks (bafta@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
- :
- : In article <1992Dec29.164256.18889@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- : rbw3q@rayleigh.mech.Virginia.EDU (Brad Whitehurst) writes:
- :
- : > By the time you also pay for FICA, pension, benefits, and
- : >overhead, a $50,000 engineer can easily cost a company double his base
- : >pay!
-
- Don't forget state payroll taxes (if your state has one - paid by the
- employer, not the employee) and workman's-compensation (also paid by
- the company). Other figures in he cost can include the rent/lease
- payments for the office and the property taxes on the toys that the
- engineer gets to play with all day. These are ongoing costs, not
- one time costs like paying for a desk or workstation (unless your
- organization rents/leases those as well).
-
- : Wow, your lab pays for FICA? I'm impressed. It takes up about a third
- : of *my* salary, when combined with income taxes. Right out of my pay.
- : I was under the impression it came out of everyone's pay, that that was
- : the idea behind "Social Security".
-
- FICA payments come from employee "contributions" and from matching
- contributions from the employer. "Self Employment Tax" is FICA, only
- you pay *both* parts.
-
- Take what ever you are paying (~7%-9%, I forget exactly what) and add in
- an equal amount from your employer. Now kiss it goodbye, because anyone
- under 50 ain't gonna see it come back :-(
-
- -ethan
-
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