Long-term disability plans: Fixed percent of annual earnings Data Table

Employee Benefits Survey

Long-term disability plans: Fixed percent of annual earnings Data Table

Table 30. Long-term disability plans: Fixed percent of annual earnings, civilian workers,1 National Compensation Survey, March 2010
(All workers with a fixed percent of annual earnings long-term disability coverage = 100 percent)
Characteristics	Fixed percent of annual earnings					Mean fixed percent of annual earnings	Median fixed percent of annual earnings
Characteristics	Less than 60 percent	60 percent	61 to 66 percent	67 percent	Greater than 67 percent	Mean fixed percent of annual earnings	Median fixed percent of annual earnings
All workers	20	60	10	7	2	59.2	60.0
Worker characteristics
Management, professional, and related	20	58	12	7	3	59.3	60.0
Management, business, and financial	18	63	11	7	1	59.3	60.0
Professional and related	20	56	13	8	3	59.2	60.0
Teachers	14	43	22	14	7	61.4	60.0
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers	16	37	24	15	7	61.5	60.0
Registered nurses	35	53	8	�	�	56.6	60.0
Service	32	50	9	6	3	58.0	60.0
Protective service	21	53	17	�	�	59.7	60.0
Sales and office	16	63	11	7	2	59.7	60.0
Sales and related	16	64	12	7	2	60.0	60.0
Office and administrative support	16	63	11	7	2	59.7	60.0
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	22	62	7	7	2	59.0	60.0
Construction, extraction, farming, fishing, and forestry	20	66	6	�	�	59.3	60.0
Installation, maintenance, and repair	23	60	8	7	2	58.8	60.0
Production, transportation, and material moving	19	69	5	5	2	58.7	60.0
Production	17	69	6	�	�	58.9	60.0
Transportation and material moving	21	69	3	5	2	58.5	60.0
Full time	20	61	10	7	2	59.1	60.0
Union	26	47	9	11	6	59.6	60.0
Nonunion	19	63	11	6	2	59.1	60.0
Average wage within the following categories:2
Lowest 25 percent	26	55	8	7	3	59.1	60.0
Second 25 percent	19	64	9	7	2	59.0	60.0
Third 25 percent	18	62	10	7	3	59.4	60.0
Highest 25 percent	21	58	11	7	2	59.1	60.0
Highest 10 percent	21	57	12	7	2	59.0	60.0
Establishment characteristics
Goods-producing industries	18	67	8	6	2	59.1	60.0
Service-providing industries	20	59	11	7	3	59.2	60.0
Education and health services	22	54	12	�	�	59.1	60.0
Educational services	14	45	21	13	7	61.3	60.0
Elementary and secondary schools	17	35	26	15	7	61.6	60.0
Junior colleges, colleges, and universities	11	61	15	�	�	60.7	60.0
Health care and social assistance	29	61	5	�	�	57.2	60.0
Hospitals	37	57	3	�	�	56.0	60.0
Public administration	20	46	22	�	�	60.0	60.0
1 to 99 workers	13	67	9	9	3	60.2	60.0
1 to 49 workers	13	69	9	7	2	59.9	60.0
50 to 99 workers	14	64	8	12	3	60.6	60.0
100 workers or more	23	57	11	6	2	58.7	60.0
100 to 499 workers	16	65	10	8	2	59.5	60.0
500 workers or more	28	53	12	�	�	58.2	60.0
Geographic areas
New England	16	63	7	12	2	59.7	60.0
Middle Atlantic	19	64	8	7	2	59.4	60.0
East North Central	26	58	6	7	3	58.6	60.0
West North Central	14	61	11	�	�	60.3	60.0
South Atlantic	16	63	17	3	1	59.2	60.0
East South Central	�	50	5	5	�	56.8	60.0
West South Central	18	68	6	6	2	59.0	60.0
Mountain	16	57	14	�	�	59.8	60.0
Pacific	22	54	14	8	2	59.4	60.0
Footnotes:
1Includes workers in the private nonfarm economy except those in private households, and workers in the public sector, except the federal government. See Technical Note for further explanation. 2The categories are based on the average wage for each occupation surveyed, which may include workers with earnings both above and below the threshold. The average wages are based on the estimates published in the "National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2009." See Technical Note for more details. NOTE: Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal totals. Dash indicates no workers in this category or data did not meet publication criteria. For definitions of major plans, key provisions, and related terms, see the "Glossary of Employee Benefit Terms" at www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/glossary20092010.htm.