The Social Security Administration’s Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) has projected that the Social Security wage base will remain at $106,800 for 2011.

The 2011 projections were included as part of the annual report to Congress by the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund programs (The 2010 OASDI Trustees Report). Actual annual increases to the wage base are announced in October of the preceding year. The SSA provides three kinds of forecasts for Social Security wage bases (intermediate, low cost, and high cost). The SSA intermediate forecasts through 2019 are as follows:

2011 — $106,800
2012 — $113,700
2013 — $118,200
2014 — $123,600
2015 — $129,300
2016 — $135,300
2017 — $141,000
2018 — $147,300
2019 — $153,600