Short-term disability plans: Employee contribution requirement Data Table

Table 23. Short-term disability plans: Employee contribution
requirement, State and local government workers, National
Compensation Survey, March 2010

(All workers with short-term disability coverage = 100 percent)

Characteristics

Employee
contribution
required

Employee
contribution not
required

All workers

12

88

Worker characteristics

 

 

Management, professional, and related

11

89

    Professional and related

11

89

        Teachers

9

91

Service

15

85

    Protective service

16

84

Sales and office

13

87

    Office and administrative support

13

87

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

12

88

Full time

12

88

Part time

10

90

Union

15

85

Nonunion

9

91

Average wage within the following categories:1

 

 

    Lowest 25 percent

10

90

        Lowest 10 percent

8

92

    Second 25 percent

12

88

    Third 25 percent

12

88

    Highest 25 percent

15

85

Establishment characteristics

 

 

Service-providing industries

12

88

    Education and health services

11

89

        Educational services

8

92

            Elementary and secondary schools

9

91

            Junior colleges, colleges, and universities

4

96

        Health care and social assistance

27

73

            Hospitals

31

69

    Public administration

16

84

100 workers or more

13

87

    100 to 499 workers

18

82

    500 workers or more

12

88

State government

13

87

Local government

12

88

Geographic areas

 

 

New England

–

100

Middle Atlantic

31

69

East North Central

19

81

West South Central

–

100

Mountain

14

86

Pacific

5

95

Footnotes:

1The 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.