Reporting Daily Pay Rates

Instructions

The new maximum daily pay rate is $200.00. Report the actual rate of pay for employees whose daily rate of pay is $200.00 or less. Report $200.00 for employees whose daily rate of pay exceeds $200.00. Employers are required to report daily pay rates for all employees.

Background 

The RRB uses pay-rate information to determine an employee’s daily benefit rate for unemployment and sickness benefits. It is projected that effective with benefit year 2007, and possibly 2006, the daily rate of pay needed to qualify an employee for the maximum daily benefit rate will exceed $99.99. Thus, we have expanded the daily pay rate field on the BA-3 annual report to accept amounts greater than $99.99. The daily pay rate is now 5 positions in format $$$¢¢.

Benefit to Employers

Every year, the daily pay rate needed to qualify for the maximum benefit rate increases. In an effort to reduce the burden of making annual changes but also to retain some privacy for pay rate information above the needed annual amount, the RRB sets a maximum above which pay rates need not be reported. The new maximum daily pay rate of $200.00 will not need to be changed for many years.