Kansas Issues 2022 Unemployment Tax Rates

Kansas unemployment tax rates are not to change for 2022, the state Labor Department said Dec. 2.

Effective Jan. 1, 2022, unemployment tax rates for experienced employers are to range from 0.2% to 5.4% for positive-rated employers and from 5.6% to 7.6% for negative-rated employers, the department said on its website.

Although the range of rates is the same for 2022 as in 2021, the 2022 rates are to be determined with Schedule 7, the standard rate schedule that was established under a measure signed in April that created 13 new unemployment tax rate schedules. The standard rate schedule ...