Social Security Maximum Taxable Earnings 2025

Social Security Maximum Taxable Earnings 2025. Learn effective strategies to manage increased payroll taxes and navigate the ongoing concerns about social security solvency. The maximum taxable earnings for 2025 will top out at $176,100, which is a 4.4 percent increase from the maximum taxable earnings limit in 2024.

The amount, an increase from $168,600 in 2024, is the wage base limit that applies to earnings subject to the 6.2% oasdi tax (old age, survivors, and disability insurance). In 2022, about 82 percent of earnings from employment fell below the maximum taxable amount and were thus subject to the social security payroll tax.