Table C. Health insurance benefits: Employee participation and share of premiums paid by employer and employee for family coverage, National Compensation Survey, March 2008

Table C. Health insurance benefits: Employee participation and share of premiums paid by employer and employee for family coverage, National Compensation Survey, March 2008
(All workers=100 percent)
Characteristics	Civilian(1)		Private industry		State and local government
Characteristics	Employer share of premium	Employee share of premium	Employer share of premium	Employee share of premium	Employer share of premium	Employee share of premium
All workers	69	31	68	32	73	27
Worker characteristics
Management, professional, and related	70	30	68	32	72	28
Management, business, and financial	70	30	69	31	-	-
Professional and related	69	31	68	32	72	28
Teachers	70	30	-	-	71	29
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers	69	31	-	-	70	30
Registered nurses	65	35	-	-	70	30
Protective service	-	-	-	-	78	22
Service	66	34	63	37	75	25
Sales and office	66	34	65	35	73	27
Sales and related	63	37	63	37	-	-
Office and administrative support	67	33	66	34	74	26
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	73	27	72	28	74	26
Construction, extraction, farming, fishing, and forestry	74	26	73	27	-	-
Installation, maintenance, and repair	72	28	71	29	-	-
Production, transportation, and material moving	74	26	74	26	74	26
Production	76	24	75	25	-	-
Transportation and material moving	71	29	71	29	-	-
Full time	69	31	69	31	73	27
Part time	66	34	64	36	74	26
Union	83	17	85	15	81	19
Nonunion	65	35	65	35	64	36
Average wage within the following percentiles:(2)
Less than 10	61	39	61	39	60	40
10 to under 25	62	38	62	38	68	32
25 to under 50	65	35	64	36	74	26
50 to under 75	70	30	69	31	73	27
75 to under 90	73	27	73	27	73	27
90 or greater	74	26	71	29	81	19
Establishment characteristics
Goods-producing industries	75	25	75	25	79	21
Service-providing industries	68	32	66	34	73	27
Education and health services	67	33	63	37	71	29
Educational services	70	30	65	35	71	29
Elementary and secondary schools	69	31	62	38	70	30
Junior colleges, colleges, and universities	71	29	65	35	74	26
Health care and social assistance	64	36	63	37	70	30
Hospitals	65	35	64	36	69	31
Public administration	76	24	-	-	76	24
1 to 99 workers	65	35	65	35	73	27
1 to 49 workers	65	35	65	35	70	30
50 to 99 workers	65	35	64	36	76	24
100 workers or more	71	29	70	30	73	27
100 to 499 workers	69	31	69	31	74	26
500 workers or more	72	28	72	28	73	27
Geographic areas
New England	68	32	66	34	79	21
Middle Atlantic	76	24	71	29	89	11
East North Central	75	25	73	27	81	19
West North Central	69	31	70	30	67	33
South Atlantic	64	36	64	36	61	39
East South Central	61	39	62	38	57	43
West South Central	61	39	63	37	54	46
Mountain	65	35	66	34	61	39
Pacific	74	26	71	29	82	18
Footnotes: (1) Includes workers in the private nonfarm economy except those in private households, and workers in the public sector, except the federal government. (2) The percentile groupings are based on the average wage for each occupation surveyed, which may include workers both above and below the threshold. The percentile values are based on the estimates published in "National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2007," available online at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ncswage2007.htm. See Technical Note for more detail.
Note: Dashes indicate that data are not available.