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In 2024, PFML taxes took 0.74% of an employee’s gross wages, and in 2025 the premium is going up to 0.92%. Someone who makes $75,000 a year will pay $690 into the program for 2025 whether they ...
As previously reported by The Center Square, Washington’s Paid Family Medical Leave program has been far more popular than lawmakers anticipated, with payouts expected to exceed contributions ...
2024 Washington Initiative 2124 – Proposal to make employee participation in state long-term care program voluntary November 19–20: The November 2024 Northeast Pacific bomb cyclone resulted in over 600,000 people in the Seattle area without electricity, and killed two Washington individuals.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
In 2024, federal income tax rates remain at 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37%. While these rates stay the same for 2025, the income thresholds for each bracket will adjust for inflation.
On Zoom, they divvied up the workload, and Fries told them to use paid hours to start their underemployment claims with the Washington Economic Security Department". Two weeks later, the Inlander had received "one of the first Payroll Protection Program loans for a Washington news company: $436,500 to cover personnel costs for eight weeks". [ 8 ]
The agency has boosted the income thresholds for each bracket, applying to tax year 2024 for returns filed in 2025. For 2024, the top rate of 37% applies to individuals with taxable income above ...
Benefits are set at 70% of income for low income earners and 60% for middle and high income earners, however there is a maximum weekly benefit that is tied to the State Average Weekly Wage corresponding to the year of the claim. For 2019, this maximum is $1252 while the lower range of weekly benefits is $50. [9]