Data source · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

Quarterly BLS ECEC employer-paid compensation costs per employee hour and component shares of total compensation. Dimensions include civilian/private/state-local ownership, occupation, industry, establishment size, barg…

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Employee benefit cost benchmarks

Quarterly ECEC publishes employer-paid benefit costs in current U.S. dollars per employee hour and each compensation component’s 0–100 share of total compensation, selectable by benefit component and pooled worker or establishment cohort, geography, and quarter, with release, footnote, and precision context. It supplies the cost portion of this question; it does not publish benefit access, participation, or take-up.

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Compensation cost by wage percentile Compensation share Disability insurance benefit cost Employer compensation cost per hour Health insurance benefit cost Insurance benefit cost Legally required benefit cost Life insurance benefit cost Paid leave cost Retirement benefit cost Supplemental pay cost Total benefits cost Wages and salaries cost Workers compensation benefit cost

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BLS first-party documentation presents Employer Costs for Employee Compensation as a U.S. statistical product, with national and any supported state/local cohorts inside the fifty states and District of Columbia.

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