Data field · Geographic area

Payroll growth rate

The percentage change in payroll for a stated industry, geography, and period.

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National Council on Compensation Insu…

State of the Line

Annual public workers-compensation benchmark report series published by NCCI. The coordinated release family includes presentation and print PDFs, an HTML Guide, Insights, and At-a-Glance materials. The 2026 edition supplies P/C and workers-compensation premium/results measures plus workers-compensation frequency, medical, indemnity, total, and wage-adjusted claim-severity series for private carriers and state funds in jurisdictions where NCCI provides ratemaking services, with annual, geography, cohort, valuation, development, preliminary, exclusion, unit, and methodology context. Annual editions remain one Source.

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