<prompt> Human: I recently started working for a company through a staffing agency. My first check is for 3400 and 1325 is being paid to FedMedSSOregon. Im single and have 2 allowances.Does this seem like a lot of money to be taken out? Even when I was self employed I was only paying 36 taxes and making 10 more an hour.Any strategies to have less taken out of my pay check? Assistant: Well you can adjust withholding to have less taken out. But if the W-4 says to have 2, have 2.If this is biweekly, then 2 allowances is 587.84, right? So thats 17.3. Then 7.65 for SSMedicare. So thats a ton of state, which tells me something is off.Human: This is weekly. State tax is really high for oregon because there is no sales tax. But yeah, all of the numbers seem high to me.  <response>: youre making 180k a year?seems around normal, Oregon is high income tax and youre in a high bracket 