Titanic Facts: The Ship. White Star Line was the company that built the Titanic, and was owned by J.P. Morgan, an American tycoon. The cost to build the RMS Titanic was $7.5 million. RMS stands for Royal Mail Steamer. It took 3,000 men two years to build the Titanic.
Workers and employers pay for Social Security. Workers pay 6.2 percent of their earnings up to a cap, which is $118,500 a year in 2015. (The cap on taxable earnings usually rises each year with average wages.) Employers pay a matching amount for a combined contribution of 12.4 percent of earnings.
The average Social Security payment for retired workers in 2014 is about $1,300. For 22 percent of married couples and 47 percent of single people, Social Security accounts for 90 percent or more of their income in retirement, the Social Security Administration reports.ccording to the National Institute on Retirement Security, 45 percent of working-age households have no retirement savings at all. Among people 55 to 64, average household retirement savings total only $12,000.