Catch a payroll spreadsheet that still caps wages at last year's state unemployment wage base
| Official 2026 taxable wage base | — | $ |
|---|---|---|
| Wages your sheet never taxed, per worker | — | $ |
| SUI tax gap per worker | — | $ |
| Total SUI tax gap | — | $ |
| Verdict | — | |
| Days until the caps change again | — | days |
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Catch a payroll spreadsheet that still caps wages at last year's state unemployment wage base
A US payroll accountant charges $75 to $150 an hour to re-check state wage-base caps.
Buy the full version — $60You pick your state, type the taxable wage base your payroll spreadsheet uses and your SUI experience rate, and it returns the official 2026 base, the wages per worker your sheet never taxed, the tax gap per worker and the total. Oregon moved from $54,300 to $56,700, so 18 workers at 2.4% leave $1,036.80 unpaid.
US small-business payroll admins, bookkeepers and controllers who still run payroll in a spreadsheet or a carried-over template, especially anyone who copied last year's tab in January. It is also useful to a multi-state employer checking one state at a time before the quarterly SUI return goes out.
State unemployment wage bases are set each autumn and change again every January 1. A chatbot answers from training text and quotes the prior year's cap with no warning; at least 4 of these 12 states moved for 2026 (IL, MN, NJ, OR). This extension holds the 2026 figures and prices your error in dollars.
Free, with no key and no run limit: all 12 state caps, your own figure for any other state, and the full priced gap. The $60 one-time key adds two things on a different axis: a .csv export you keep with the filing, and a January 1, 2027 alarm to re-check when the caps reset.
A US payroll accountant charges $75 to $150 an hour to re-check state wage-base caps, and a single stale Oregon cap across 18 workers at 2.4% already costs $1,036.80 in underpaid SUI before interest. The check itself takes under a minute here and the free layer never asks for a key.
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