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 example, in 2010, the limit for taxation for Social Security was $106,800 compared with $113,700 in 2013. The maximum Social Security tax collected in 2010 was $6,621.60 per contributor; that maximum in 2013 was $7,049.40, or 6.2 percent of $113,700.