Your First Paycheck: Why It's Smaller Than You Think

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Fifteen dollars an hour for a 40-hour week comes to $600 gross, and these slides subtract $45.90 in FICA plus federal and state tax until the deposit lands near $497, then a pie chart slices that same $600 into its take-home and withheld pieces.

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