A street clock in Newport. Oregon employers were due to receive 2027 unemployment-tax and Paid Leave rate notices this week. Photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Oregon employers were due to get their 2027 unemployment-insurance tax rates and Paid Leave contribution rates in the mail no later than Nov. 13, the Oregon Employment Department said, with the same information scheduled to appear in Frances Online employer accounts on Nov. 15.
The department has not, on that page, published the 2027 rates themselves. Until an employer can see the new notice, the official 2026 figures still apply: a Paid Leave contribution rate of 1 percent of subject wages up to $184,500, and an unemployment-insurance taxable wage base of $56,700, with Schedule 3 rates running from 0.9 percent to 5.4 percent.
For a Lincoln County shop, restaurant, mill, clinic or charter office, the practical step this week is to watch the mail and then log into Frances Online after Nov. 15, rather than guess at a 2027 number from this year’s rate. Paid Leave’s total contribution is capped at 1 percent by statute, but the exact split and the unemployment schedule can change, which is why the department sends employer-specific notices.
Questions go to the department’s Contributions and Recovery Division at 503-947-1488, or oed.contributions.and.recovery.division@employ.oregon.gov, on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Paid Leave Oregon employer line is 833-854-0166, with the same weekday hours.
