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New unemployment tax rates released

1/6/2016

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Contact: Janelle Guthrie, APR, Communications Director, 360-902-9289                   


83% of employers will have lower tax rates

OLYMPIA – The Employment Security Department has issued 2016 tax rate notices to employers and we updated our Web site with all the new information. 

Tax rates in all 40 rate classes declined from 2015 to 2016, ranging from 0.10 to 5.7 percent (not counting delinquency taxes). About 83 percent of employers will move into a lower rate class or stay the same in 2016. 

Highlights

  • 83 percent of Washington employers will have a lower tax rate in 2016, 0.3 percent will remain the same, and 16 percent will move to a higher rate class.
  • The average tax rate will decrease from an estimated 1.48 percent in 2015 to an estimated 1.26 percent in 2016. The average total tax paid per employee will decline by $48 to $277.
  • About 39 percent of all taxable employers are in rate-class 1, taxed at 0.10 percent. Ninety percent of employers in rate-class 1 have five or fewer employees.
  • The experience-rated portion of the 2016 unemployment tax (paid by rate-classes 2 and higher) will be based on benefit payouts from July 2011 through June 2015.
  • Unemployment tax collections will decrease from 2015 ($981 million) to 2016 (about $836 million).
  • Employers will pay unemployment taxes on the first $44,000 of each employee’s earnings in 2016. For an employee earning $44,000 or more, the total tax for the year will range from $44 (employers in rate-class 1) to $2,508 (rate-class 40). On average, the total tax per employee will decline by $48 in 2016, to $277.
  • For 2016, new employers will pay 90 percent of the average rate for all businesses in their respective industries.

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