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Your Earnings Record

Your Taxed Your Taxed Your Taxed Your Taxed
Years You Social Security Medicare Years You Social Security Medicare
Worked Earnings Earnings Worked Earnings Earnings
1974 220 220 1999 32,395 32,395
1975 570 570 2000 34,489 34,489
1976 1,067 1,067 2001 35,570 35,570
1977 1,882 1,882 2002 36,138 36,138
1978 2,705 2,705 2003 37,232 37,232
1979 3,529 3,529 2004 39,140 39,140
1980 4,628 4,628 2005 40,734 40,734
1981 6,355 6,355 2006 42,679 42,679
1982 7,935 7,935 2007 44,614 44,614
1983 9,366 9,366 2008 45,588 45,588
1984 10,884 10,884 2009 44,776 44,776
1985 12,265 12,265 2010 45,573 45,573
1986 13,482 13,482 2011 46,569 46,569
1987 15,121, 15,121, 2012 47,472 47,472
1988 16,580 16,580 2013 47,288 47,288
1989 17,869 17,869 2014 47,660 47,660
1990 19,296 19,296 2015 47,833 47,833
1991 20,549 20,549 2016 46,770 46,770
1992 22,115 22,115 2017 Not yet recorded
1993 22,765 22,765
1994 23,778 23,778
1995 25,092 25,092
1996 26,659 26,659
1997 28,564 28,564
1998 30,392 30,392

Total Social Security and Medicare taxes paid over your working career through the last year reported on the chart above:

Estimated taxes paid for Social Security: Estimated taxes paid for Medicare:
You paid: $66,002 You paid: $15,910
Your employers paid: $67,915 Your employers paid: $15,910

Note: Currently, you and your employer each pay a 6.2 percent Social Security tax on up to $128,400 of your earnings and a 1.45*
percent Medicare tax on all your earnings. If you are self-employed, you pay the combined employee and employer amount, which is a
12.4 percent Social Security tax on up to $128,400 of your net earnings and a 2.9* percent Medicare tax on your entire net earnings.
*If you have earned income of more than $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples filing jointly), you must pay 0.9 percent more in Medicare taxes.

Help Us Keep Your Earnings Record Accurate

You, your employer and Social Security share responsibility processing last year’s earnings reports when your Statement
for the accuracy of your earnings record. Since you began was prepared. Your complete earnings for last year will be
working, we recorded your reported earnings under your name shown on next year’s Statement. Note: If you worked for more
and Social Security number. We have updated your record each than one employer during any year, or if you had both earnings
time your employer (or you, if you’re self-employed) reported and self-employment income, we combined your earnings for
your earnings. the year.
Remember, it’s your earnings, not the amount of taxes you There’s a limit on the amount of earnings on which you pay
paid or the number of credits you’ve earned, that determine your Social Security taxes each year. The limit increases yearly.
benefit amount. When we figure that amount, we base it on your Earnings above the limit will not appear on your earnings
average earnings over your lifetime. If our records are wrong, chart as Social Security earnings. (For Medicare taxes, the
you may not receive all the benefits to which you’re entitled. maximum earnings amount began rising in 1991. Since 1994,
Review this chart carefully using your own records to make all of your earnings are taxed for Medicare.)
sure our information is correct and that we’ve recorded each Call us right away at 1-800-772-1213 (7 a.m.–7 p.m. your
year you worked. You’re the only person who can look at the local time) if any earnings for years before last year are shown
earnings chart and know whether it is complete and correct. incorrectly. Please have your W-2 or tax return for those years
Some or all of your earnings from last year may not be available. (If you live outside the U.S., follow the directions at
shown on your Statement. It could be that we still were the bottom of page 4.)
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