I am paying my employee a semi-monthly salary paycheck. The pay start is
1/1/25-1/15/25 for pay date 1/15/25.

Salary $123,264. Taxable for pay period is $4,602 after hsa and sep taken
out.

SS and Medicare are correct at $314.3 & $73.51 but federal tax appears to
be very high at $663.12 for married.

I ran this through 2 other online payroll sites to make sure the federal
tax taken out was correct and they both were calculated at around $390 per
pay period for federal tax. Do you have any suggestions why the automated
federal tax could be so much higher?

Thanks so much.

Thank you for reaching out to us. Below are the possible reasons.

1. If some deductions are pretax, please specify it from deduction setup.
https://www.halfpricesof...-tax-deduction-setup.asp 


2. Please make sure you select the correct pay period.

View the pay period
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3. Please make sure you select "Married" for this employee.


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Thank you for reaching out to us. Below are the possible reasons.

1. If some deductions are pretax, please specify it from deduction setup.
https://www.halfpricesof...-tax-deduction-setup.asp 


2. Please make sure you select the correct pay period.

View the pay period
https://www.halfpricesof...re/change-pay-period.asp 

3. Please make sure you select "Married" for this employee.


Please feel free to contact us if you need assistance. We are here to help.

Sincerely,

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