At 4,039 feet above sea level, Mount Sunflower is the highest point in Kansas. Located in Wallace County, just east of the Kansas/Colorado border, Mount Sunflower is more than 3,300 feet above the state's topographic low point in Montgomery County in southeastern Kansas.
Employee Social Security /OASDI and Medicare. The year 2017 Social Security/OASDI tax rate for employees is 6.2 percent. The Medicare tax rate remains at 1.45 percent. The Social Security/OASDI maximum wage base increases to $127,200 for 2017. There continues to be no cap on the Medicare wage base.
For 2016, your employer will collect Social Security taxes at a rate of 6.2% on the first $118,500 of your work earnings. That means that regardless of how much money you make, the amount you could have to pay in Social Security taxes maxes out at $7,347. Your employer has to match your withheld amount with its own 6.2% tax payment out of the employer's own funds.