{"id":245,"date":"2013-12-10T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:43:34","slug":"payroll-deductionsreductions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/payroll-deductionsreductions\/","title":{"rendered":"Payroll Deductions\/Reductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><i>[Faculty Handbook Category #3]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The college makes the following payroll deductions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal and State of\u00a0Minnesota Withholding Tax:\u00a0\u00a0The amount deducted is determined by government tables in accordance with the amount of earnings and the number of exemptions claimed by the employee.<\/li>\n<li>Social Security and Medicare:\u00a0\u00a0Under present law the employee and the employer contribute equally toward this fund.<\/li>\n<li>Any garnishment, child support, or levy required by law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An eligible employee may elect payroll deductions\/reductions for the following optional benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health Insurance (premiums before social security, Medicare, federal, and state tax deductions)<\/li>\n<li>Medical Reimbursement Account (before social security, Medicare, federal, and state tax deductions)<\/li>\n<li>Dependent Care Reimbursement Account (before social security, Medicare, federal, and state tax deductions)<\/li>\n<li>Supplemental life insurance<\/li>\n<li>Dependent life insurance<\/li>\n<li>24-hour Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&amp;D)<\/li>\n<li>Group Supplemental Retirement Annuity \u2013 GSRA (before federal and state tax)<\/li>\n<li>Retirement Annuity \u2013 RA (before federal and state tax)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further details regarding these options can be found in the Benefits section of this\u00a0<i>Handbook<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><em>updated 9.8.2025<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Faculty Handbook Category #3] The college makes the following payroll deductions: Federal and State of\u00a0Minnesota Withholding Tax:\u00a0\u00a0The amount deducted is determined by government tables in accordance with the amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/facultyhandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}