portia grant is an employee who is paid monthly. for the month of january of the current year, she earned a total of 9,188. the fica tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $128400 of employee earnings each calendar year & the fica tax rate for medicare is 1.45% of all earnings. the futa tax rate of 0.6% & the suta tax rate of 5.4% are applied to the first $7000 of an employees pay. the amount of federal income tax withheld from her earnings was 152457