Medicare Tax Rate 2024 High Income Families. Dhss adds new data and reports to the costaware website date posted: For 2024, individuals with earned income over $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples filing jointly) may be subject to the additional medicare tax.

The affordable care act enforces high wage earners to pay an extra medicare payroll tax, or medicare surtax, of 0.9% on earned income. Employers must pay 1.45% of each.