| Table: Unemployment Insurance (UI) Costs in Wyoming and Neighboring States, 2001 | ||||||
| UI Costs | ||||||
| State | Taxable Wage Base | Tax Rate(1) | For an Annual Wage of $25,700 or More(2) | Rank(3) | For an Annual Wage of $5,356(4) | Rank |
| Colorado | $10,000 | 0.8% | $80 | 5 | $43 | 4 |
| Idaho | $25,700 | 1.2% | $308 | 1 | $64 | 2 |
| Montana | $18,200 | 1.1% | $200 | 2 | $59 | 3 |
| Nebraska | $7,000 | 0.8% | $56 | 6 | $43 | 4 |
| South Dakota | $7,000 | 0.6% | $42 | 7 | $32 | 5 |
| Utah | $21,400 | 0.4% | $86 | 4 | $21 | 6 |
| Wyoming | $14,100 | 1.3% | $183 | 3 | $70 | 1 |
| (1) Projected. | ||||||
| (2) The Unemployment Insurance (UI) cost for employees with an annual wage above the taxable wage base equals the taxable wage base times the tax rate. An annual wage of $27,500 is used as an example in the Table. | ||||||
| (3) Ranked by UI cost. A rank of one denotes the highest UI cost among the seven states. | ||||||
| (4) The UI cost for employees earning an annual wage of less than the taxable wage base equals the annual wage times the tax rate. A part-time employee working 20 hours a week at $5.15 per hour earning an annual wage of $5,356 ($5.15 times 20 hours times 52 weeks) is used as an example in the Table. | ||||||
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