- Portia Grant is an employee who receives her pay on the first of every month.
- She brought in a total of $8,260 in revenue during the month of January of the current year.
- The Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) tax rate for social security is 6.2 percent of the first $118,500 in wages that an employee receives in a given calendar year, while the FICA tax rate for Medicare is 1.45 percent of all earnings.
- Both rates are referred to as the FICA tax rate.