An Employee Earned $4,300 Working for an Employer

question 148

Multiple Choice

An employee earned $4,300 working for an employer.The current rate for FICA social security is 6.2% and the FICA Medicare rate is 1.45%.The employer's total FICA payroll tax for this employee is:

• A)$62.35.
• B)$266.60.
• C)$328.95.
• D)$657.90.
• E)Zero,since the FICA tax is a deduction from an employee's pay and not an employer tax.

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Definitions:

Variable Cost

Costs that vary directly with the level of production or sales volume, such as materials and direct labor.

Fixed Cost

Costs that do not vary with the level of production or sales, such as rent, salaries, and insurance premiums, providing stability in expense planning.

Least-Squares Regression

A statistical technique used to find the line of best fit for a set of data, minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed and predicted values.

Variable Cost

Costs that vary directly with the level of production output or activity, such as materials and labor directly involved in manufacturing.