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(Please note that as of 2013, wages paid in excess of $200,000 to high-earner employees will be subject to an extra 0.9 percent <strong>Medicare Tax<\/strong> that will be withheld from those employees\u2019 wages.)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>NJ Unemployment and Disability<\/strong> wage limit is increasing to $33,700 (from $33,500 in 2017).<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>NJ Employee Disability<\/strong> rate decreased from .0024 to .0019.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>NJ Family Leave Act<\/strong> rate decreased from .0010 percent to .0009 percent.<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> PA State Personal Income Tax<\/strong> rate is 3.07 percent.<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> PA State Unemployment Tax<\/strong> rate is .06 percent. Taxable wage limit is $10,000.<\/li>\n<li>The<strong> City of Philadelphia Wage Tax<\/strong> rate is 3.8907 percent for Philadelphia residents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional payroll tax information can be found on the Pulse under Departments\/Finance\/Payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 tax rates have been announced for many of the Federal and State deductions in your paycheck. The 2018 tax rates are as follows: The Social Security Tax rate for employees is 6.2 percent through the end of 2018, with maximum taxable earnings of $128,400. (Source: Social Security Administration website.) 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