<< Back to glossary. UCS-2 is a character encoding standard in which characters are represented by a fixed-length 16 bits (2 bytes). It is used as a fallback on many GSM networks when a message cannot be encoded using GSM-7 or when a language requires more than 128 characters to be rendered.
Quick Answer. Most U.S. taxpayers with a traditional salary pay 6.2 percent of each paycheck as taxes for social security and 1.45 percent for Medicare, according to the California Tax Service Station. Additional amounts may be deducted from each paycheck for federal withholding or for state fees such as unemployment insurance.
UPDATE: 2016 OASDI Tax and Social Security Withholding Rate. Fed Withholding is the biggest component of the total tax you are paying out of your paycheck. This is the federal tax mandated by the government and it can be controlled by changing your claim using the W-4 or the Federal Withholding. The more withholding you claim, the less money from your paycheck will be withheld.