2020 Unemployment Insurance (UI) Tax Rates
2020 tax rates were mailed to Texas employers in December 2019.
Employer-paid
UI taxes replenish the Texas Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund, which
provides temporary income for Texas workers who lose their jobs through no fault of
their own.
The 2020 standard minimum
UI tax rate is 0.31 percent which is down from 0.36 percent
in
CY 2019. An employer paying the standard mimimum tax will pay $27.90 per employee
in
CY 2020 on the first $9,000 in wages per employee compared with $32.40 per
The average unemploymenmt insurance (
UI) tax rate for experience-rated employers will be
0.93 percent for 2020, dropping to its lowest point since 2009.
The maximum
UI tax rate, paid by 4.5 percent of Texas employers, will be 6.31 percent,
decreasing from
CY 2019 at 6.36 percent.