EXPERIMENTAL SERIES

Table 4. Employer costs per hour worked for total employee compensation for 15 largest metropolitan areas, private industry, March 2004 and March 2005
Metropolitan area March 2004 March 2005
ECEC for total compensation Percent relative standard error ECEC for total compensation Percent relative standard error

All areas in the United States(1)

$23.29 1.2 $24.17 1.5

Atlanta, GA

27.33 4.9 27.68 1.7

Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT

29.85 1.6 31.54 2.0

Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI

27.36 1.7 28.91 2.2

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

24.63 2.5 26.70 2.2

Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI

28.74 3.0 29.04 2.8

Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX

25.06 1.9 25.59 4.1

Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA

26.58 2.6 28.58 2.6

Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL

20.36 2.8 20.36 3.2

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI

28.50 1.0 29.38 1.6

New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA

30.05 2.7 30.65 2.1

Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD

25.54 1.8 27.06 1.9

Phoenix-Mesa, AZ

24.22 2.6 24.39 3.1

San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

29.49 1.5 31.95 2.0

Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA

28.22 2.2 28.44 2.6

Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV

26.36 1.6 27.46 2.1

Footnotes:
(1) Includes all metropolitan areas and nonmetropolitan counties in the 50 States and the District of Columbia.