Social Security Limit 2025 Tax Increase. The social security administration (ssa) has announced that the maximum earnings subject to the social security payroll tax will increase by $7,500 in 2025. Nearly everyone pays taxes on their income to support social security, and that isn’t changing in 2025.
The oasdi tax rate for wages paid in 2025 is set by statute at 6.2 percent for employees and employers, each. Here are three changes coming to social security in 2025 that may surprise retirees.