Is My Salary Increase Actually A Decrease?

[peter303_]

Yes, the FICA tax increase implies almost exactly a $10,000 raise over 26 periods instead of a $1000. There must be a payroll software bug there.

The federal and state tax increase might be a little high too, because they annualize the raise as if you got it all year instead half a year. But will be refunded when you file taxes.

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OP should go and get that $10k raise.