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Oklahoma voters will get the chance to vote on gradually increasing the state's base hourly wage to at least $15 an hour, but not for another year and a half. ... wage will increase to $14.65 ...
The minimum wage is $7.25 per hour for employees of smaller businesses and 14- and 15-year-olds. A recent effort to increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour didn't collect enough ...
The new wage base limit, which will be in effect in 2025, is $176,100, up from the $168,600 limit in 2024. This means more income of some workers will be subject to Social Security payroll taxes.
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.
It is also the maximum amount of covered wages that are taken into account when average earnings are calculated in order to determine a worker's Social Security benefit. In 2020, the Social Security Wage Base was $137,700 and in 2021 was $142,800; the Social Security tax rate was 6.20% paid by the employee and 6.20% paid by the employer.
For the year 2008, ODJFS sought federal help concerning Ohio's unemployment insurance trust fund. State officials had stated that the fund was in danger of running out before the end of the year. [9] On December 5, 2008, ODJFS announced that extended unemployment benefit payments will start the week of December 22, 2008. [10]
Oct. 1—COLUMBUS — Ohio's minimum wage will increase beginning Jan. 1, 2025, to $10.70 per hour for non-tipped employees and $5.35 per hour for tipped employees. The minimum wage will apply to ...
Nearly half the states in the U.S. are set for minimum wage increases on Jan. 1, which will mean a pay hike for some 9.2 million workers, according to recent data. An analysis by The Economic ...