00:01
So the federal unemployment tax is a tax that is collected from companies that employ people.
00:31
The amount collected from this act is allocated to the agency that is working for unemployed people.
00:38
The point of it is that if you become unemployed, companies have contributed so that unemployment wages can be given to people while they look for a new job.
00:49
Here we are calculating the amount of net pay for an employee for the month of january.
00:54
Part of the unemployment tax is taken out of people's checks to help pay for this and so that if you need to get unemployment you have contributed to it as well so net pay is calculated as the gross pay minus your social security minus medicare minus federal income taxes minus health insurance minus any retirement plan that you have coming out of your check now, not everybody's check may have all of these things coming out of it, but in this scenario, this is what we have coming out of it.
01:54
Given the information we have, the gross pay is 5 ,500, minus their social security, which is 6 .2%.
02:03
So i get 5 ,500 times, and instead of 6 .2%, i'm going to go ahead and convert that to a decimal.
02:10
We convert percentages to decimals by dividing by 100, so i get 0 .062.
02:21
Minus the medicare, which is 1 .45%, and again, i'm going to go ahead and convert that to a decimal...