How Does Your Paycheck Look?

[dannno]

Today is Friday, a lot of people are getting their first paycheck of 2013.

My taxes actually went down by a couple bucks maybe (completely negligible) except for Social Security, which went up about 33% bringing my paycheck amount down significantly. So much for my 'cost of living' raise for the last year or two. Wiped out.

Anybody else?

[torchbearer]

same

[oyarde]

I will know on 1/18, I have purposely not ran it on a calculator ( not sure I need the aggravation ), my last one was $30 short , but that was only four days worth of the Social Sec rate , next one will be the full two weeks.

[brushfire]

My pacheck was violated again. 2 percent lower than before the first of the year. 11% adjusting for real inflation.

[oyarde]

My pacheck was violated again. 2 percent lower than before the first of the year. 11% adjusting for real inflation.I like how you gave the inflation number.

[Lucille]

And remember:


The new Medicare payroll is different. It will be imposed on the combined earnings of a married couple.

Employers are required to withhold Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes from wages paid to employees. But employers do not necessarily know how much a worker’s spouse earns and may not withhold enough to cover a couple’s Medicare tax liability. Indeed, the new rules say employers may disregard a spouse’s earnings in calculating how much to withhold.

Workers may thus owe more than the amounts withheld by their employers and may have to make up the difference when they file tax returns in April 2014 (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/us/politics/new-taxes-to-take-effect-to-fund-health-care-law.html?_r=0). If they expect to owe additional tax, the government says, they should make estimated tax payments, starting in April 2013, or ask their employers to increase the amount withheld from each paycheck.

[oyarde]

Today is Friday, a lot of people are getting their first paycheck of 2013.

My taxes actually went down by a couple bucks maybe (completely negligible) except for Social Security, which went up about 33% bringing my paycheck amount down significantly. So much for my 'cost of living' raise for the last year or two. Wiped out.

Anybody else? Have you decided what you are going to cut back on Danno ?

[oyarde]

According to my records , I spent about $8 a day last yr on metals.Probably stop this yr , go with $4 a day on Ammo & Spam instead :).

[jkr]

I WILL CUT BACK ON COMPLIANCE

[TonySutton]

I saw it last week. Lost 2% plus a small increase in local tax too :(

[liberalnurse]

Hard for me to to guesstimate. I get paid every 2 wks. Had 2 holidays @ double time and 1/2 on it. (xmas 2012, New yrs. 2013) 6 days were still 2012 rate and 4 days 2013 plus a raise for the 2013 days so who the hell knows. I'll wait until I get my next check of a straight 80 hrs. and compare it then.

[oyarde]

I WILL CUT BACK ON COMPLIANCEThought that went without saying .

[itshappening]

Paychecks for most people coming in next week.

We need to be ready to explain to the confused liberals on twitter what happened and why on average their paycheck will be $80-100 down.

[CaptUSA]

13% increase in my overall taxes. They went up in all categories.

[Uriel999]

We got a 1.2% raise across the board, and I got a 100 dollar raise on top of that...However, due to the taxes and the SS tax going back to 6% I make the roughly exactly what I did before.

[seraphson]

If my math's right (going off the top of my head) it's overall down about 1/3 an oz. of gold a year.

[camp_steveo]

Mine's down ~$50/week

[SilentBull]

2.2% less Net.

[EBounding]

Do insurance premium increases count?

[Qdog]

What paycheck?

[Confederate]

No change in taxes. Still 0.

[dannno]

Have you decided what you are going to cut back on Danno ?


Growin more weed instead

[WilliamShrugged]

Mine was reduced as well but my paycheck varies on how much i make in tips. I'll have to compared how much i claimed in tips last paycheck to this years one.

[UpperDecker]

Mine was reduced as well but my paycheck varies on how much i make in tips. I'll have to compared how much i claimed in tips last paycheck to this years one.

Same here, though my check was than expected after 60+ hours for the pay period.

[coastie]

Mine was literally enough to cover the gas to drive to work. Only job I could find is 25 miles away from the house, 12 hours per week. Fuck my life, for real.



Can we pretty please have this collapse soon so we're all in the same boat. Please?

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

I quit my job

[coastie]

I quit my job

I'm fixing to. Seems I'm only working just to drag my ass out there.

[jbauer]

Mine was reduced as well but my paycheck varies on how much i make in tips. I'll have to compared how much i claimed in tips last paycheck to this years one.

Friggin Jay Leno here!!! Maybe times have changed but I "didn't make much" in tips ever!!

[Ronulus]

Mine only went down like 12 dollars.

So thankful texas doesn't have state income tax.

[jbauer]

I'm fixing to. Seems I'm only working just to drag my ass out there.

Na you have to get laid off so you can get 2-3 years worth of unemployment. Plus food stamps, section 8, utilities, cell phone, etc.

[pcosmar]

Paycheck?
Have not see one in a long time.

Not paying taxes is the only plus side.

[MelissaWV]

My steady and official paycheck looks about the same, but honestly I haven't looked at the stub to see what went where. I do know that obviously some of my taxation went up, but on the flipside my health insurance now costs me $0 (it used to be $25 or so out of each paycheck).

[FrancisMarion]

My pay is gross. Once a year I bend over. I 1099 everyone I can so they can bend over once a year too. This way they can get upset as well.

[Zippyjuan]

I can't really tell yet- it was not a typical check for me. Had eight hours of holiday pay plus eight hours of overtime I would not have normally had. That alone probably pushed me into a higher tax rate for the week.

[torchbearer]

I was going to get a Blue Cross/Blue Shield select health insurance plan for $60 a month starting this pay period.
but i had to forgo health insurance because of the increase in taxes... you know, so we can double tap some family's funeral in pakistan.

[Carson]

According to my records , I spent about $8 a day last yr on metals.Probably stop this yr , go with $4 a day on Ammo & Spam instead :).

Spam is no joke. I picked up a couple of cans the other day and I haven't had it since Boy Scouts. We used to always take it camping. Handy being canned but perfect to get some grease to cook in.

Not to bad. About like I remembered.


P.S. Oh yeah. Back to crying about my paycheck.

I'm pretty sure I was getting about a buck fifty picking watermelons when I was a kid. That comes to $32.55 in today's fiat according to the Silver and Gold Payment Calculator. (http://www.silverandgoldaremoney.com/) I don't think I was ever healthier then I was after that stint. I keep meaning to start a health club that buses people out to the fields for work instead of yanking some handle at a gym somewhere...

unless it is one of my gyms where the exercise equipment drives generators and tell you how much power you've produced.

Another bus leaving at 7:00 Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

[phill4paul]

Did a handy man job today doing some painting. Asked for $175 cash. Received $175 cash. Still need to collect some cash from outstanding jobs. Should be paid in full in cash by Monday evening.

[dannno]

Did a handy man job today doing some painting. Asked for $175 cash. Received $175 cash. Still need to collect some cash from outstanding jobs. Should be paid in full in cash by Monday evening.

I try to encourage as many of my friends as possible to take jobs that pay in cash.

[phill4paul]

I try to encourage as many of my friends as possible to take jobs that pay in cash.

Man, 2012 was a terrible year. I'm gonna have zero income to report.

[gwax23]

Went down. Same situation as the OP's paycheck.

[CaptLouAlbano]

My son and his wife told me about this. Combined their checks are $75/week lighter now. The sad thing is that because of this they fired their cleaning service which cost them $90/week. Now here is the sad part of it all, the girls that run the maid service are two women, they clean 3 houses per day and just lost at least one client because of this tax hike. So you have girls that make $500 a week each cleaning houses losing $45 of that. Not to mention that their taxes went up as well. It's a vicious cycle.

[dannno]

My son and his wife told me about this. Combined their checks are $75/week lighter now. The sad thing is that because of this they fired their cleaning service which cost them $90/week. Now here is the sad part of it all, the girls that run the maid service are two women, they clean 3 houses per day and just lost at least one client because of this tax hike. So you have girls that make $500 a week each cleaning houses losing $45 of that. Not to mention that their taxes went up as well. It's a vicious cycle.

Fuck you very much, Obama.

[CaptLouAlbano]

Fuck you very much, Obama.

Exactly. And think of it as it spirals down, those women have less money to spend now, which means someone else somewhere is getting hours cut back or losing their job. It's really a sad state we are in.

The problem is that the left HATES capitalism and rejoices in seeing this stuff happen, because somewhere out there someone had to file for welfare or food stamps for the first time because of the vicious cycle at work.

[gwax23]

Thats why idiots who say tax the rich dont understand in the end its an indirect tax on them and they will most likely be economically hit harder by this indirect tax than the direct tax on those "evil rich pigs."

[CaptLouAlbano]

Thats why idiots who say tax the rich dont understand in the end its an indirect tax on them and they will most likely be economically hit harder by this indirect tax than the direct tax on those "evil rich pigs."

Exactly, it expired for the self employed too, so we should see prices slowly rise at pizza shops, barbershops, hardware stores, etc.

[AdamT]

Wife's went down $80/month. Barely making it now, so this doesn't help any.....f*ckers.

[green73]

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQkDLKlbezRF0yRnAgSL9yKrILHd1Vp8 aHpEKMPyplztSDTMwDRFQ
WAIT!
MY TAXES WENT UP TODAY? (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/11/lighter-paychecks-to-hamper-many-americans-amid-uncertain-economic-times/?intcmp=HPBucket)
http://www.drudgereport.com/i/logo9.gif (http://www.drudgereport.com/)

[FrancisMarion]

We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but
for and against the caricatures we make of them.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tsowell.com%2Fimages%2FHoover %2520Proof.pdf&ei=_-PwUPP-B4-c8gSN84HQAw&usg=AFQjCNENcxbcQRl-rOo5bcH2Mkr5nTx4_g&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.eWU

[shane77m]

I am missing 8 hours on today's check but they took out an extra $14 bucks. I figure I will be missing about $65-$70 a month. I am not sure about my wife yet. We will know Tuesday.

Oh well, at least I will get to draw social security when I need it. /s

[Carehn]

I make 200 bucks less a month now. This is wonderful. I love being chained to 300 million incompetent boobs. The more I am forced to be part of something the more I find myself hating everyone. even people I don't know. They all are just a drain on me and its starting to fucking piss me off.

[Philhelm]

Well I got canned in October from a small law office due to lack of business, so my paycheck is, well, significantly less, especially adjusted for inflation.

[FrancisMarion]

Well I got canned in October from a small law office due to lack of business, so my paycheck is, well, significantly less, especially adjusted for inflation.

more regulation coming soon to help the law profession. after all, the lawmakers are lawyers.

[bolil]

That table, I am under it.

[Philhelm]

more regulation coming soon to help the law profession. after all, the lawmakers are lawyers.

I was in immigration law, so count on it...

[itshappening]

Just wait until Tuesday folks, the whining on twitter is going to be loud.

[jkr]

ILL DO WHAT THEY REALY WANT
quit my job and get one that pays MUCH more

that'll disrupt the economy!

[dannno]

So I guess the good news is that millions of people yesterday finally realized that Obama is a big fat liar.

[Confederate]

That table, I am under it.

Me too. $4500/month, completely tax free.

[kathy88]

Between my husband and I we're down almost 400 bucks a month. It's going to hurt. Especially because I just went from self employed to a "real job" and took a big pay cut.

[DamianTV]

My pacheck was violated again. 2 percent lower than before the first of the year. 11% adjusting for real inflation.

+Rep

People need to recognize that every time they see the price of something go up, that is as much of a Pay Cut as an increase in Taxes.

[Aeroneous]

So I guess the good news is that millions of people yesterday finally realized that Obama is a big fat liar.

Yes, but unless there's a sudden movement toward impeachment it's a little too late for the realization. Even then, the next people in line are potentially worse.