Payroll Tax Guide
Best for: articles explaining FICA, withholding, or employer obligations.
For Writers, Bloggers & Researchers
Cite Our Research & Link to Us
Writing about payroll taxes, small business compliance, or HR software? Reference our guides, embed our free calculator, or reuse our 2026 datasets — all we ask is a link back so your readers can verify the source.
Copy-Paste Link Snippets
Paste one of these into your article. Each links to the most useful page for your readers.
Please keep the links followed (no nofollow) so readers — and search engines —
can trace the source.
Free Payroll Calculator
Best for: “calculate your cost” callouts and HR tool roundups.
State Payroll Guides
Best for: multi-state hiring, remote work, and SUI explainers.
Software Comparisons
Best for: “best payroll software” roundups and tool reviews.
Citable 2026 Statistics
Use any of these figures in your article with a link to the source page. Figures reflect our published 2026 guides — always verify current law with the IRS or SSA before filing.
6.2% Social Security · $176,100 cap
Employer and employee each pay 6.2% up to the annual wage base. Maximum: $10,918.20 each.
1.45% Medicare · no cap
Matched 50/50 on all wages. The 0.9% additional tax above $200,000 is employee-only.
FUTA: 0.6% effective · $7,000 base
Timely state unemployment payments cut the 6.0% statutory rate to 0.6% — $42 per employee per year.
9 states · no wage income tax
Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wyoming.
7.65%–11%+ true cost above wages
FICA match, FUTA, and SUI add roughly a tenth on top of gross pay — before benefits and comp insurance.
Late deposits: 2%–15% penalties
Missing an EFTPS deposit schedule escalates fast — automation prevents the most common trigger.
Embed the Free Payroll Calculator
Give your readers an interactive tool and earn longer on-page time. Paste these two lines where you want the calculator to appear. It renders inline in your page styling and includes a small followed attribution link back to us — that link is what keeps the tool free.
Embed Code
Works on WordPress (Custom HTML block), Ghost, Webflow embeds, and any page that allows scripts. No API key needed.
What Your Readers Get
Downloadable Datasets (CC BY 4.0)
Free for articles, presentations, and research under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: reuse anything, provided you credit PayrollTaxReform.com with a link to the source page.
SUI Wage Bases 2026 — Selected States
State, income-tax status, SUI wage base, agency, and official agency URL for every state profiled in our guides.
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Download JSON →
Suggested credit: “SUI data via PayrollTaxReform.com State Guides (verify with state agency).”
Federal Payroll Thresholds 2026
Social Security wage base, Medicare and FUTA rates, 401(k) and HSA limits — the figures behind our thresholds table.
Download JSON →
View thresholds table →
Suggested credit: “Thresholds via PayrollTaxReform.com 2026 Updates (verify with IRS/SSA).”
Earn Your Own Backlinks: 3 Outreach Templates
Inbound links are earned, not installed — nobody can place links on other sites for you. These proven templates help you pitch our pages (or your own content) to sites that link out. Replace the bracketed parts and send 5–10 per week.
Resource-Page Pitch
Target: SBA offices, SBDCs, SCORE chapters, and chambers with “small business resources” pages.
Broken-Link Replacement
Target: accounting blogs and HR sites linking to dead IRS or payroll pages (find them with any broken-link checker).
Data / Journalist Pitch
Target: journalists and newsletter writers covering small business, taxes, or remote work.
Where to send them:
Start with sites that already link out: local SBDC and SCORE resource pages, state chamber “employer toolkit” pages, accounting-firm blogrolls, HR-community resource lists, university entrepreneurship centers, and payroll-software comparison roundups that list free calculators. Track every send and follow up once after 7 days.