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Employer Costs for Employee Compensation
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Removing Workers’ Compensation Costs from the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC)
With the March 2027 release of December 2026 data, the Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC) will remove workers’ compensation costs from ECEC calculations.
Workers’ compensation (WC) is one of 18 employer-provided benefits for which information is collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) under the National Compensation Survey (NCS) program.
Workers’ compensation suffers from a substantially lower item response rate than other NCS benefits. Because workers’ compensation only makes up about 1 percent of total compensation, BLS has decided to focus its efforts on collecting benefits which make up a greater share of total compensation and will remove workers’ compensation data from the NCS. For more information, see Removing workers’ compensation costs from the National Compensation Survey.
A Federal Register notice was published seeking comments on proposed changes to the survey.
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This notice will be updated with additional information once it is available. For comments or questions on the ECEC, please contact us at ncsinfo@bls.gov or through the Information Request form.
Last Modified Date: February 12, 2026