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It's the same in the US, with different percentages. From: https://bench.co/blog/accounting/calculate-payroll-tax/

- FICA tax is 7.65% (6.2% social security, 1.45% medicare)

- FUTA tax is 0.6 to 6.0% (varies, iiuc)

- And then employers (generally) also pay an amount towards health care. But that's not a tax, per se; more of a mandatory "benefit"

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Most of all of that comes out of the salary on your payslip in the US.

There is a 7% employer contribution that does not show up on your payslip (as well as the 7% that does). Also the employer contribution to your health insurance does not show up but your part of it does.

None of that comes out of the salary on your payslip. Rather, you also have your own contribution to those things, separate from the one your employer pays.

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