FUTA wage base headroom, 2024

This works out one number from the FUTA Wage Base figures published for 2024. Every amount it uses is below, with the document it was read from. What you enter is your own: this site has no way to check it, and the answer it produces is not a published figure.

Wage base$7,000

Effective 2024-01-01Source: 2024 Instructions for Form 940 (IRS)Verified 2026-08-29

How it is worked out

The published amount less the amount you enter, rounded to the nearest cent. Where what you enter is the larger of the two, the answer is nothing rather than a negative amount.

It uses Wage base, $7,000, the only one this year publishes.

Figures in this colour are computed from the amounts above. They are not published figures and no document states them.

Work it out

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Worked out for common amounts

Wages paid to this employeeResult
0$7,000
2,000$5,000
5,000$2,000
7,000$0
How each figure was verified

Each number below was read from a stored copy of the document named beside it, and checked to occur word for word in the quoted sentence. The digest is of that stored text.

2024 Instructions for Form 940 (IRS)

Wage base
This $7,000 is called the FUTA wage base.
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  • Verified 2026-08-29
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