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Short-term disability plans: Method of benefit payment

Table 24. Short-term disability plans: Method of benefit payment, State and local
government workers, National Compensation Survey, March 2014

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

Characteristics

Flat dollar
amounts

Dollar
amount
varies

Fixed
percent of
annual
earnings

Percent
varies by
annual
earnings

Other

All workers

3

–

87

8

–

Worker characteristics

          

Management, professional, and related

–

–

88

7

2

    Professional and related

–

–

88

6

2

        Teachers

–

–

86

4

3

            Primary, secondary, and special education
             school teachers

–

–

86

3

–

Service

2

–

87

10

–

    Protective service

–

–

80

–

–

Sales and office

1

–

86

10

–

    Office and administrative support

1

–

85

10

–

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

–

–

86

9

–

Production, transportation, and material moving

19

–

72

–

–

Full time

3

–

86

9

–

Part time

–

–

88

8

–

Union

5

–

84

8

–

Nonunion

1

–

90

8

–

Average wage within the following categories1:

          

    Lowest 25 percent

–

–

93

3

–

        Lowest 10 percent

–

–

95

–

–

    Second 25 percent

3

–

82

13

–

    Third 25 percent

–

–

84

9

–

    Highest 25 percent

–

–

88

8

2

Establishment characteristics

          

Service-providing industries

3

–

87

9

–

    Education and health services

–

–

89

6

2

        Educational services

–

–

89

4

2

            Elementary and secondary schools

–

–

90

3

2

            Junior colleges, colleges, and universities

–

–

86

11

–

        Health care and social assistance

–

–

87

13

–

            Hospitals

–

–

89

11

–

    Public administration

2

–

84

12

–

1 to 99 workers

–

–

94

–

–

    1 to 49 workers

–

–

94

–

–

    50 to 99 workers

–

–

93

–

–

100 workers or more

3

–

86

9

–

    100 to 499 workers

–

–

85

11

–

    500 workers or more

3

–

86

9

–

State government

–

–

82

17

–

Local government

4

–

88

5

–

Geographic areas

          

Northeast

3

–

94

1

–

    New England

–

–

89

–

–

    Middle Atlantic

4

–

95

1

–

South

–

–

86

10

–

    South Atlantic

–

–

84

–

–

    West South Central

–

–

92

–

–

Midwest

–

–

76

18

–

    East North Central

3

–

75

18

–

    West North Central

–

–

78

–

–

West

–

–

87

8

–

    Mountain

–

–

89

–

–

    Pacific

–

–

87

8

–

1Surveyed occupations are classified into wage categories based on the average wage for the occupation, which may include
workers with earnings both above and below the threshold.  The categories were formed using percentile estimates generated using
ECEC data for March 2014.


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/glossary20132014.htm.