EVERYBODY pays 15.3% social security & medicare tax. It's less painful when it comes off your weekly pay check and your employer "pays" half of it. The employer doesn't really pay half as he takes that into consideration in deciding what the employee's pay will be.
0.9235 x $13,000 x 0.153 = 1836.84
2000 -1837 = You paid $163 actual income tax
