# SUTA

> SUTA — The state unemployment insurance tax an employer pays on each employee's wages up to a state wage base, at an experience-rated rate assigned by the state.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/suta
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**What is suta?** In accounting, SUTA means the state unemployment insurance tax an employer pays on each employee's wages up to a state wage base, at an experience-rated rate assigned by the state.

## Words this system refuses for it

- FUTA
- SUI withholding (employee contributions exist only in a few states)

- **Category:** Tax
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)