Class variables: Class variables are variables declared with in a class, outside any method, with the static keyword. A class can have any number of methods to access the value of various kinds of methods. In the above example, barking(), hungry() and sleeping() are methods.
New Mexico FICA Tax Rate and FICA Tax Limits. The FICA tax rate is 15.3% of taxable wages. The FICA Tax is comprised of the Social Security Tax and Medicare Tax. The Social Security taxable wage base is the first $118,500 paid in wages to each employee during a calendar year. The Medicare Tax has no income limit. New Mexico Social Security Tax Rate is 12.4%. New Mexico Medicare Tax Rate is 2.9%.
The 2015 FICA tax rate is 6.2% for the employee and 6.2% for the employer up to the wage base limit of $118,500. The current Medicare tax rate is 1.45% for both the employee and employer. There is no wage base limit for Medicare tax.