<prompt> Human: Hi Personal Finance. I am 18 years old recently found work. I am single and live with my parents. In my last paycheck of two weeks, I earned 1000 and 300 of it was deducted for taxes. I think this is too much but I dont know too much about taxes. The Federal Income Tax was 150 out of the 1000 I earned in two weeks working overtime. The other 150 was 75 to Social Security, 17 to FICA-MED, and 41 to Connecticut SIT. Can anyone help me?I live in CT and get paid the minimum wage of 10.10I am really curious if the 150 Federal Income Tax was calculated correctly since that seems to be nearly 16 of my income of 1000. Thanks!  <response>: Yeah, welcome to the tax-paying adulthood. That is 15. Probably, you will get a little of that back when you file a tax return in February. 