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.
Employer Rates. Employers are also required to pay FICA and Medicare taxes on wages paid to employees. In 2011, unlike the employee's rate, which decreased from the previous year, the employer's FICA rate remained unchanged from 2010 at 6.2 percent of taxable wages to $106,800 for the year. The employer pays the same as the employee for Medicare tax -- 1.45 percent in 2011.