Analysis of Major Characters. Jean Louise âScoutâ Finch-The narrator and protagonist of the story. Scout lives with her father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia, in Maycomb. She is intelligent and, by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy.
1 The maximum social security tax employees and employers will each pay in 2016 is $7,347.00 per employee (unchanged from 2015). 2  Domestic employees. 3  The threshold for coverage under social security and Medicare for domestic employees will be $1,900 in 2015 (unchanged from 2014). 4  Election workers.
Image source: Getty Images. Social Security tax is one part of the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (FICA) tax, and it is assessed at a rate of 12.4%. This is split evenly between the employee and employer, and it applies to earned income up to $118,500 for 2016 -- resulting in a maximum Social Security tax of $14,694. The remainder of FICA tax goes to Medicare.