The Herald is back for the 19th year of the “Your Tax Dollars at Work” payroll and database rolling report. Check back here for all our data-driven reporting. And, here’s what we reported first (below ...

The New York State Department of Labor announced that starting Jan. 1, contractors and subcontractors must use the Electronic Certified Payroll Submissions system to report payrolls for public work ...

U.S. nonfarm payrolls grew by 64K in November, topping the 40K consensus and rebounding from a 105K decline in October, which is also an initial estimate, according to data released by the Bureau of ...

Rep. Shaun Scott, D-43. A newly proposed payroll tax would add new costs for large businesses in Washington state. But Rep. Shaun Scott, a Seattle Democrat sponsoring the bill, argues it would protect ...

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Bellevue’s Mayor acknowledges Seattle tax policy has benefitted her city and should serve as a warning sign for Washington lawmakers who dare consider a new statewide payroll tax.

OLYMPIA – With about a month to go before the 2026 legislative session, progressive lawmakers in Olympia rolled out a new revenue proposal Tuesday that targets Washington’s largest employers with a 5% ...

Washington state Democratic lawmakers are mulling plans for new taxes to help the state resolve a persistent budget shortfall. On Dec. 2, first-term state Rep. Shaun Scott of Seattle held a news ...

SEATTLE — A new state bill, modeled after a payroll tax in Seattle, is set to be introduced in Olympia and aims to collect more than $2 billion a year from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. State Rep ...

The Social Security payroll tax includes a 6.2% tax paid by both employees and employers. Workers will pay Social Security payroll taxes on up to $184,500 in earnings in 2026. Individuals who have ...

The New York Mets had MLB's largest 2025 payroll on opening day, according to MLB's present-day calculations obtained by USA TODAY Sports. The Los Angeles Dodgers, thanks largely to Shohei Ohtani's ...

Microsoft is warning of an active scam that diverts employees’ paycheck payments to attacker-controlled accounts after first taking over their profiles on Workday or other cloud-based HR services.

A cybercrime gang tracked as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees in the United States to hijack salary payments in "pirate payroll" attacks since March 2025. Microsoft Threat ...