What is the unemployment rate calculation
For state FUTA taxes, use the new employer rate of 2.7 percent on the first $8,000 of income. The federal FUTA is the same for all employers — 6.0 percent. Here’s how you calculate the FUTA tax for this company:State unemployment taxes: $8,000 x 0.027 = $216 per employee. $216 x 10 employees = $2,160. Federal unemployment taxes: The real unemployment rate (technically called the U-6 measure) is reported on a monthly basis in the jobs report along with the official unemployment rate and four other measures of unemployment. Unlike the official unemployment rate, however, it takes underemployed and marginally attached workers (including discouraged workers) into consideration as well as unemployed people.