2025 Social Security Tax Limit Increase. 10 unveiled a higher threshold for earnings subject to social security payroll taxes, known as the “taxable maximum” or “wage. The maximum social security tax employees and employers will each pay in 2025 is $10,918.20, an increase of $465 from $10,453.20 in 2024, due to the wage limit increase.
The individual tax brackets for ordinary income have been adjusted by inflation. (last year, the tax limit was $168,600.)