- (1) The department shall assess an annual fee to each employer in the selected industries identified in WAC 296-63-003.
- (2) The fee shall only be assessed to employers who reported ten thousand four hundred or more worker hours to the department.
- (3) The fee assessment shall be based on reported worker hours for the prior calendar year.
- (4) One full-time equivalent employee is equal to two thousand eighty worker hours.
- (5) The fee assessment shall be two dollars and fifty cents for each full-time equivalent employee. Any fraction of a full-time equivalent employee shall be counted as one full-time equivalent employee.
- (6) The annual fee shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars for an individual employer.
- (7) All fees collected by the department shall be deposited in the worker and community right to know fund.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.040 and 49.17.050. WSR 86-23-003 (Order 86-38), § 296-63-007, filed 11/6/86.]