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.
The rate for Social Security tax, as of 2015, is 12.4 percent of income, of which the employee pays 6.2 percent, and the employer pays 6.2 percent, states the IRS. The wage base limit for Social Security taxes is $118,500. Medicare tax is 2.9 percent of income, split evenly between the employee and employer. However, Medicare has no wage base limit, and employees must pay an extra annual Medicare tax of .9 percent on earnings over $200,000 that employers do not have to match.