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Short-term disability plans: Employee contribution requirement
Table 23. Short-term disability plans: Employee contribution requirement, civilian workers,1 March 2016
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(All workers with short-term disability coverage = 100 percent)
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Characteristics
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Employee contribution required
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Employee contribution not required
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All workers
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16 |
84 |
Worker characteristics
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Management, professional, and related
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11 |
89 |
Management, business, and financial
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10 |
90 |
Professional and related
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12 |
88 |
Teachers
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11 |
89 |
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers
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14 |
86 |
Registered nurses
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13 |
87 |
Service
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32 |
68 |
Protective service
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22 |
78 |
Sales and office
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16 |
84 |
Sales and related
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20 |
80 |
Office and administrative support
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15 |
85 |
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance
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16 |
84 |
Installation, maintenance, and repair
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12 |
88 |
Production, transportation, and material moving
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12 |
88 |
Production
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8 |
92 |
Transportation and material moving
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17 |
83 |
Full time
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13 |
87 |
Part time
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41 |
59 |
Union
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17 |
83 |
Nonunion
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15 |
85 |
Average wage within the following categories:2
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Lowest 25 percent
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34 |
66 |
Lowest 10 percent
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46 |
54 |
Second 25 percent
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15 |
85 |
Third 25 percent
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12 |
88 |
Highest 25 percent
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12 |
88 |
Highest 10 percent
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12 |
88 |
Establishment characteristics
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Goods-producing industries
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11 |
89 |
Service-providing industries
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17 |
83 |
Education and health services
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14 |
86 |
Educational services
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10 |
90 |
Elementary and secondary schools
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11 |
89 |
Junior colleges, colleges, and universities
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6 |
94 |
Health care and social assistance
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16 |
84 |
Public administration
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15 |
85 |
See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 23. Short-term disability plans: Employee contribution requirement, civilian workers,1 March 2016continued
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(All workers with short-term disability coverage = 100 percent)
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Characteristics
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Employee contribution required
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Employee contribution not required
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1 to 99 workers
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22 |
78 |
1 to 49 workers
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24 |
76 |
50 to 99 workers
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19 |
81 |
100 workers or more
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12 |
88 |
100 to 499 workers
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13 |
87 |
500 workers or more
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10 |
90 |
Geographic areas
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Northeast
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37 |
63 |
Middle Atlantic
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43 |
57 |
South
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5 |
95 |
South Atlantic
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5 |
95 |
East South Central
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6 |
94 |
West South Central
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4 |
96 |
Midwest
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6 |
94 |
East North Central
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7 |
93 |
West
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9 |
91 |
Mountain
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4 |
96 |
Pacific
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11 |
89 |
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.
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2Surveyed 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 wage data for March 2016.
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Note: Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal totals. For definitions of major plans, key provisions, and related terms, see the "Glossary of Employee Benefit Terms" at www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/glossary20152016.htm.
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
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