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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The cost of these coverages may be shared with the employees (with worker contributions deducted from the wages or salary) but are otherwise a form of earnings, providing value that a worker might otherwise have to purchase. The employer portion is an employer cost of employee compensation. Employers pay $2.30 cents per hour worked.

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Workers’ compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 2

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Some states allow for employer deductibles, effectively a form of self-insurance. Some Australian jurisdictions require employers pay the initial time-loss compensation and medical costs before workers’ compensation takes over, although the amounts and durations vary by jurisdiction. December 2001 [Revised June 2002].