EXPERIMENTAL SERIES

Table 5. Employer costs per hour worked for employee compensation, for private industry workers, by metropolitan area, March 2005
Metropolitan area ECEC average hourly cost Percent of total compensation Percent relative standard error
Wages and salaries Total benefits Wages and salaries Total benefits Wages and salaries Total benefits

All Areas in the United States(1)

$17.15 $7.02 71.0 29.0 1.1 1.2

Atlanta, GA

19.95 7.73 72.1 27.9 1.7 2.5

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

22.33 9.22 70.8 29.2 1.8 4.0

Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI

20.31 8.61 70.2 29.8 2.1 2.6

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

19.36 7.34 72.5 27.5 2.0 3.6

Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI

19.36 9.69 66.6 33.4 3.4 2.0

Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX

18.16 7.43 71.0 29.0 4.0 4.7

Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA

20.42 8.16 71.4 28.6 2.5 3.2

Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL

15.12 5.24 74.3 25.7 3.3 3.4

Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI

20.71 8.67 70.5 29.5 1.7 1.7

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

21.71 8.94 70.8 29.2 2.4 1.6

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

19.06 8.00 70.4 29.6 2.1 2.6

Phoenix-Mesa, AZ

17.48 6.91 71.7 28.3 2.8 4.3

San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA

22.64 9.31 70.9 29.1 1.9 2.2

Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA

19.32 9.12 67.9 32.1 3.2 2.1

Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV

20.09 7.37 73.2 26.8 2.3 1.9

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