Oregon Reduces Workers’ Compensation Tax in 2020

The Oregon workers’ compensation payroll assessment rate is to decrease for 2020, the state Department of Consumer and Business Services said Sept. 9.

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, the tax rate is to be 2.2 cents an hour or part of an hour worked by each employee, down from 2.4 cents an hour in 2019, the department said on its website.

The payroll assessment rate may be a combined rate for employer and employee contributions. Employers are to remit the total amount, but may require employees to pay up to half of the combined rate, 1.1 cents an hour, as wage ...