Maryland FAMLI withholding starts on wages paid from 1 January 2027. The first quarterly report and payment, covering January to March, is due 30 April 2027. Benefits begin in January 2028, so 2027 is a collection year with no claims in it.
This page is about Maryland FAMLI, administered by the Maryland Department of Labor, FAMLI Division. Colorado runs a separate paid leave program with the same name and different rules; nothing here applies to it.
The calculator returns your own dated list, including the notice date derived from your payroll frequency, and marks which one is next.
Registration has no deadline and everything else waits on it, so it sits at the top of the list rather than in a date slot.
| Date | What is due | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Open now, no deadline | Register the employer with FAMLI | Required at one Maryland employee. Nothing else can happen until it is done. |
| Tue 1 Sep to Sun 15 Nov 2026 | Declaration of Intent, private plans only | Friday 13 November is the last business day before the close. |
| Wed 21 Oct 2026 | Submit the Declaration early enough to survive a rejection | 15 business days before the deadline, which is FAMLI's decision window. |
| October 2026 | SSA publishes the 2027 Social Security wage cap | Not a duty. Every contribution figure changes when it lands. |
| December 2026, employer-specific | Written notice to employees before withholding | At least one full pay period before your first 2027 pay date. Your date depends on your payroll frequency. |
| Fri 1 Jan 2027 | Withholding starts | Contributions are due on wages paid from this date. |
| Fri 30 Apr 2027 | First quarterly report and payment, Q1 wages | Covers wages paid 1 January to 31 March 2027. |
| Fri 2 Jul 2027 | Six months before benefits commence notice | The nominal date, 3 July 2027, is a Saturday. Notices move earlier, not later. |
| Sat 31 Jul 2027 | Q2 report and payment | A Saturday, so the payment moves to the next business day, Monday 2 August 2027. |
| Fri 1 Oct 2027 | Private plan application due | Applications open in summer 2027. Private plan employers only. |
| Sun 31 Oct 2027 | Q3 report and payment | A Sunday, so the payment moves to Monday 1 November 2027. |
| Mon 1 Nov 2027 | The Secretary must set the 2028 contribution rate | Not a duty. The statute caps the rate at 1.2 percent. |
| Fri 31 Dec 2027 | All Declarations of Intent expire | The plan must be approved before 1 January 2028 or the escrow is remitted with interest. |
| January 2028 | Benefits begin | Employees can start claiming. The first claims land Monday 3 January 2028. |
| Mon 31 Jan 2028 | Q4 2027 report and payment | Covers wages paid 1 October to 31 December 2027. |
Reports and payments are quarterly, due at the end of the month following each quarter. COMAR 09.42.02.08
| Wages paid | Report and payment due | Falls on |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January to 31 March | 30 April | Friday in 2027 |
| 1 April to 30 June | 31 July | Saturday in 2027, so Monday 2 August |
| 1 July to 30 September | 31 October | Sunday in 2027, so Monday 1 November |
| 1 October to 31 December | 31 January | Monday in 2028 |
Where a payment date falls at a weekend it moves to the next business day. Notice dates get no such relief and move earlier instead. COMAR 09.42.02.08E That asymmetry is small and it catches people, which is why the calculator computes both rather than printing a generic calendar.
Interest runs at 1.5 percent a month, or part of a month, on the unpaid amount. COMAR 09.42.02.09A The Secretary may also assess a penalty of up to twice the contributions owed and order an audit of your next fiscal year. LE 8.3-903
The bigger exposure is usually not the late payment. It is the deemed election: an employer that fails to make the deduction is considered to have elected to pay the employee's portion for each pay period it missed, and cannot recover it from a later cycle. COMAR 09.42.02.07A
Contributions run for a full twelve months before any employee can claim anything. That gap is deliberate, and it means the first year of FAMLI is, from an employer's point of view, entirely administrative: register, notify, withhold, report, pay, four times.
The employee-facing half of the program starts in January 2028, and that is when the questions change from “what does this cost” to “how do I handle a claim”.
| Employees working in Maryland | 12 |
|---|---|
| Total employees under one EIN | 12 |
| Annual Maryland payroll | $780,000 |
| Payroll frequency | Every two weeks |
| Notice due, safe default with no first pay date given | 1 December 2026 |
|---|---|
| Withholding starts | Friday 1 January 2027 |
| Q1 payment, due Friday 30 April 2027 | $877.50 |
| Q2 payment, due Monday 2 August 2027 | $877.50 |
| Q3 payment, due Monday 1 November 2027 | $877.50 |
| Q4 payment, due Monday 31 January 2028 | $877.50 |
| Total remitted for 2027 | $3,510.00 |
Computed by famliclock.com from the published 2027 rate of 0.9 percent and the 2026 Social Security taxable maximum of $184,500, on 21 September 2026. Wages are assumed to be spread evenly across the headcount, which produces the largest figure the employer could owe. These are estimates, not a filing.
On wages paid from 1 January 2027. Benefits do not begin until January 2028, so the first year is collection only.
30 April 2027, covering wages paid 1 January to 31 March 2027. Quarterly after that: 31 July, 31 October and 31 January.
A payment date at a weekend moves to the next business day. A notice date moves earlier instead. In 2027 that puts Q2 on 2 August and Q3 on 1 November.
Interest runs at 1.5 percent a month or part of a month on the unpaid amount, and the Secretary may assess a penalty of up to twice the contributions owed and order an audit of your next fiscal year.
Rates and dates last verified against these sources on 21 September 2026. Where this page and the Maryland Department of Labor disagree, the Department is right and this page is wrong; tell us at hello@02launch.com and a dedicated engineer fixes it within 6 hours.
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