Pennsylvania Announces Schedule of Annual UI Taxable Wage Base Increases
Author: Rena Pirsos, XpertHR Legal Editor
Effective January 1, 2013, the Pennsylvania unemployment insurance taxable wage base will increase to $8,500 from $8,000.
The rate will increase again annually as follows:
- $8,750 on 1-1-14;
- $9,000 on 1-1-15;
- $9,500 on 1-1-16;
- $9,750 on 1-1-17; and
- $10,000 for 1-1-18 and thereafter.
S.B. 1310, L. 2012.
In Pennsylvania, the taxable wage base applies only to employers' contributions. Employees pay contributions based on their gross wages. ++43 P.S. § 753(l)(2)(B).
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