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title: "Add a Workers' Compensation Rate"
slug: "add-a-workers-compensation-rate"
description: "Learn how to add Workers’ Compensation rates, manage state and class codes, set effective periods, and create future-dated rate versions."
updated: 2026-08-17T20:22:27Z
published: 2026-08-28T05:00:10Z
canonical: "docs.restaurant365.com/add-a-workers-compensation-rate"
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# Add a Workers' Compensation Rate

Use the **Add rate** button on the Workers' Compensation page to create a new workers' compensation rate for a state and class code. The button is available only to users with edit access to Workers' Compensation, and stays disabled until you select a company. The rate form opens in three sections: Class details, Rate values, and Effective period.

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## Workers’ Compensation Sections

### Class details

State and class code are editable when you first create a rate. Once the rate exists, both fields lock to read-only text — only the description remains editable at any time. A state and class code combination can't be duplicated across rates.

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State also determines the classification system used for the rate, and changes the class code field's label and how the rate is measured:

| State | Classification system | Class code label | Rate basis |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Washington | L&I | WA L&I class code | Per hour worked |
| Wyoming | DWS | Class code | Percentage of wages |
| All other states | NCCI | Class code | Flat rate per $100 of wages |

### Rate values

Employer rate is required, and must be greater than zero for Washington and Wyoming rates. Employee rate appears — and is required — only for Washington rates.

> [!WARNING]
> Important Note About Changing a Rate's State
> 
> Once a workers' compensation code is assigned to a job title, its State field can no longer be changed. Reassign the job title to a different code instead of trying to change the state of an in-use code.

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### Effective period

Effective date is required. Expiration date is optional, though it can become required or restricted to prevent a coverage gap when a future-dated rate already exists for the same class.

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## Configure Workers’ Compensation

### Add a new rate version

To change a rate's amount for an upcoming period rather than editing it in place, open the existing class and select **Add version**. Only one future-dated version is allowed per class at a time — starting a second future version updates the existing one instead of creating a new record.

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### View rate history

Select **Version history** from the rate form to open a side panel listing every version of the selected class, with a read-only view of each one.

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