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Medicare Tax Calculator 2025 — 1.45% on All Wages

Calculate the 2025 Medicare tax: 1.45% from employee and employer on every dollar of wages — no wage cap — plus the 0.9% high-earner surtax. In your browser.

Free 2025 Medicare tax calculator. The Medicare (HI) tax is 1.45% from the employee and 1.45% from the employer (2.9% total) on ALL wages — there is no wage cap. Wages above $200,000 also carry the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax (employee only). Source: IRS Topic No. 751 & 560 & 759, Social Security Administration 2025 wage base, and IRS Form 8959/940 (2025). Covers federal FICA + the 0.9% surtax + federal FUTA only — not state unemployment (SUTA) or income-tax withholding. Runs entirely in your browser; no data sent to any server. Not tax or legal advice. It runs free in your browser on Gera Tools, with nothing uploaded.

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What is the Medicare tax rate for 2025?

Medicare (HI) tax is 1.45% from the employee and 1.45% from the employer (2.9% total) on all wages — there is no wage cap. Wages above $200,000 also carry the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax, paid by the employee only. (Source: IRS Topic No. 751 & 560.)

Medicare Tax Calculator 2025 (2025)

The 2025 Medicare (HI) tax is 1.45% each from employee and employer (2.9% total) on all wages — there is no wage cap. Wages above $200,000 also carry the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax, paid by the employee only.

Enter annual wages below to see the employee share, the employer share, and the combined payroll tax — Social Security capped at the wage base, Medicare on every dollar, the 0.9% surtax for high earners, and employer FUTA. Everything runs in your browser — no wage data is transmitted.

Important: This covers federal FICA (Social Security + Medicare), the 0.9% Additional Medicare surtax, and federal FUTA only. It does not include state unemployment (SUTA), which varies by state and employer, or federal/state income-tax withholding, which is a separate system. Source: IRS Topic No. 751 & 560 & 759, Social Security Administration 2025 wage base, and IRS Form 8959/940 (2025); figures for the 2025 tax year, data as of 2024-10-10. Rates and the wage base change yearly; this is not tax or legal advice.