Setting Up Worker's Comp for Washington State

Setting up a percentage for wages is useful for the business. I'll show you how to send a request, Frole76.

The WA workers' compensation insurance is required if you have employees working in the state of Washington and is administered by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. 

In QuickBooks Online (QBO), you can only set up Workers Comp by entering the actual employees' rate.  You'll want to send feedback if you want an option to enter the percentage of wages for your employees. To do so, follow the steps outlined below:

1. Select the Gear icon at the top, then Feedback.
   
2. Enter your comments or product suggestions. Then click Next to submit feedback.

All your request goes to our Product Development team to help improve your experience in QBO. You can also track feature requests through the QuickBooks Online Feature Requests website.

Beyond that, check out this article to learn more details on how you can pay and file your WA workers' comp: Set Up And Manage Washington (WA) workers' compensation.

Furthermore, QuickBooks offers several payroll reports that you can use to view useful information about your business and employees. Learn what payroll reports that are included in the list. Read this resource for your reference: Run Payroll Reports.

If there's anything else that you need help about workers' compensation, we're here to ensure you'll get the help you need. 

That's just it. The state does NOT want a percentage of the employees wages, they want a fixed rate times the number of hours worked. QuickBooks need to offer another option.

Did you ever figure this out? I am having this problem as well

Hi there, 9bpd.

As of now, we can only set up Workers Comp by entering the actual employees' rate. I can see how this functionality would be beneficial to your business. I encourage sending a feature request directly to our Product Development team. It helps us improve the features of the program. I'll show you how:

1. Go to the Gear menu and then select Feedback.
2. Type in your feature request in the description box.
3. Once done, click on Next.
   

I'm all ears if you have other feature concerns or questions about managing transactions in QBO. You can drop a comment below, and I'll gladly help. Keep safe!

I just entered the dollar values shown on my L&I letter, ignoring the "%" symbol.  It seems to have worked!

I just tried it too, and it seems to have worked.  I don't have payroll this week, but if you do, please let me know if you have any issues.  

Did your workers comp deduction calculate correctly? 

Did your workers comp deductions calculate correctly? 

Can confirm that entering the dollar amounts and ignoring the % sign worked, it calculated accurately.

Yes!  Everything is calculating correctly

When entering the dollar values shown on your L&I letter, not only do you ignore the % symbol, you must also enter a zero before the decimal point for calculations to be correct. Took a call to support to figure this out.