Are restaurant server tips to have Social Security Tax withheld

[cherls]

I am a restaurant server. When I entered by W-2 details into TurboTax, TurboTax said my employer had over withheld social security tax in Box 4 and that I would need to go to my employer for a refund. That this overage would not go towards any tax I owed or any refund I would get form the IRS.  Trying to figure out if I did actually have too much social security tax withheld as I received conflicting answers when researching this in TurboTax and other sites.

I first confirmed the data I have on the W-2 was accurately entered into TurboTax and it was but I couldn't get the message to come back up that says I overpaid Social Security tax so I deleted the W-2 and reentered all the data and once again I couldn't get the overpayment message to come up like the first time.

Here are the details to help you help me. Thanks in advance for the help

Box 1 and 5 correctly shows my total hourly and tip wages. Box 3 "Social Security Wages" only shows my minimal hour wages earned. Box 7 shows my Social Security Tips correctly (Box 1 and 3 less the hourly wages shown in Box 3.

Box 4 "Social Security Tax Withheld" is 6.2% of boxes 1 and 3 but it is 91.4% of Social Security Wages in Box 3.

Trying to figure out which is correct and if I am due a refund from my employer.

[RobertG]

It does not seem like you were over withheld.

Employers are required to withhold Social Security tax on wages and tips, and 6.2% is the amount to withhold from wages and tips.

[Critter]

Adding up boxes 3 & 7 will give you the total for SS amount in box 4 and the program knows this  ... so did you miss entering the amount in box 7 the first time thru?  If you did that message would have been shown. 

[cherls]

thanks for the reply. I don't believe I entered it wrong, but may have. Bottom line what you are saying is that it is correct for Box 3 to only be the hourly wages with Box 4 using the totals from Boxes 3 and 7 to properly calculate the 6.2% in withholding. If yes, then all looks good as is. 

This makes sense, but I was getting conflicting info online saying the SS tax withholding should only be based on income in Box 3.