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Social Security wage base rises to $117,000 for 2014. Please Like and Share: Social Security wage base rises to $117,000 for 2014 The amount of earnings subject to taxation for purposes of calculating social security tax is called the social security wage base.

Social Security wage base rises to $117,000 for 2014

This wage base changes each calendar year based on the national average wage index. The payroll tax deduction is actually based on two components: (1) Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance, or OASDI, and (2) Medicare Hospital Insurance, or simply Medicare. Social security (Photo credit: SalFalko) The OASDI rate is 6.2% and is set by statute.

The Medicare rate is 1.45%. The combined total payroll tax deduction for Social Security and Medicare would be $9,066.50 ($7,254.00 + $1,812.50) This amount is paid by both the employee and the employer. Win 1 of 10 Blog Engage Standard Accounts and 1 Platinum Account. I’m very happy to announce we are giving away 10 Blog Engage Standard Accounts and 1 Platinum Account.

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In order to win all you have to do is join the contest below. You can connect to the contest using Facebook and or Twitter. Once connected you simply follow the instructions, follow us on Twitter Leave a comment and we will randomly pull 11 names from the entries. 10 names goes for the standard account while one name goes for the platinum account. Blog Engage is an amazing community where other like minded bloggers meet, submit their own posts, vote and comment with one another, hence the name Blog Engage. Blog Engage is one of the largest fastest growing communities specific to the blogosphere. Why is There Such a Gap in Your Resume? By Sandy Appleyard on Monday, November 4th, 2013 | 1 Comment Image courtesy of Inmagine.com Join the VIP Readers Program.

Why is There Such a Gap in Your Resume?

Be Careful When Title Baiting. What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day. Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks?

What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day

It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day. You should too. The first hour of the workday goes a bit differently for Craig Newmark of Craigslist, David Karp of Tumblr, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, career writer (and Fast Company blogger) Brian Tracy, and others, and they’ll tell you it makes a big difference.

Here are the first items on their daily to-do list. Don’t Check Your Email for the First Hour. Tumblr founder David Karp will "try hard" not to check his email until 9:30 or 10 a.m., according to an Inc. profile of him. Work at Home Training 3 Tips to Manage Your Time Effectively. 78 Flares Twitter 62 Facebook 7 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 1 LinkedIn 8 inShare8 Reddit 0 78 Flares × I hear the lame work at home excuses all the time.

Work at Home Training 3 Tips to Manage Your Time Effectively

I have no time to write blog posts, or shoot videos, or write an ebook. What is Search Engine Marketing - What Home Business Does to Make Money Online. If you want to know how to write articles in 15 minutes, then read this.

What is Search Engine Marketing - What Home Business Does to Make Money Online

One of the drawbacks many web copywriters and bloggers face is how time consuming it is to sit and write articles for their web pages, blog posts and article directory publications. Although you can use my secret to writing articles fast for your website and blog, I mainly use this strategy when submitting articles to article directories. Elastic articles is my name for articles that stretch from an article directory across the Internet to the author’s defined destination. Online Business Wizardry 3 Tips to Skyrocket Opt Ins. 99 Flares Twitter 77 Facebook 7 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 1 LinkedIn 14 inShare14 Reddit 0 99 Flares × You skyrocket online business opt ins fast by doing 1 thing damn well.

Online Business Wizardry 3 Tips to Skyrocket Opt Ins

After doing that 1 thing you need to follow up on a daily basis. Are you a Social or a Hermit Blogger? My Tips for New Bloggers out there! NASA May Give the Moon a Smaller Moon of Its Own. One of 2012′s oddest and most interesting ideas in space exploration may be getting a renewed lease on life in 2013.

NASA May Give the Moon a Smaller Moon of Its Own

According to New Scientist, NASA is “mulling over” a proposal by researchers at the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) to give the moon a moon of its own. The idea, which would see NASA snag an asteroid from deeper in space and tow it back to the moon, where it would take up orbit around the Earth’s only natural satellite, has apparently made it far enough to be considered for funding in NASA’s next round of budgeting, and all we can say is “Oh, my yes.” You can take a look at the full study, which was first published last April, here, but here are the broad strokes. KISS researchers envision a slow, steady spacecraft powered by solar ions — a sort of spacefaring tugboat that would rendezvous with a small asteroid, probably about 7 meters wide.