Earning-level Washington Labor and Industries Risk Codes

Washington employers now have the ability to configure Washington Labor and Industries (L&I) risk codes on a per-earning basis for their employees, which allows employees to perform work across multiple risk codes on a given payroll run. This is especially common in industries such as construction, where employees often perform many different types of work within a given pay period.

To enable this, partners need to be integrated with the Earning Code API. We have added the ability to provide a risk class code on the Earning Code, which if provided, will override the employee’s default risk class code and calculate WA L&I premiums at the provided risk class code’s rate.

This feature is not required for Washington L&I calculations and reporting. It only needs to be used if an employee wishes for their earnings on a given payroll to be split across more than one risk class code. By default, premiums will continue to be calculated using the risk code that is assigned to the employee in their company-defined attributes.

For more information about how Washington L&I is calculated, visit our Help Center documentation.