Standard Errors Life insurance plans: Fixed multiple of annual earnings benefit formulas

Employee Benefits Survey

Standard Errors
Life insurance plans: Fixed multiple of annual earnings benefit formulas

Table 19. Standard errors for life insurance plans: Fixed multiple of annual earnings benefit formulas,
State and local government workers, March 2016

Characteristics

Multiple of annual earnings amounts¹

Mean
multiple of
annual
earnings

Median
multiple of
annual
earnings

Less than
1.0 times
earnings

1.0 times
earnings

Over 1.0
and under
2.0 times
earnings

2.0 times
earnings

Greater
than 2.0
times
earnings

All workers

–

3.6

2.6

5.0

–

[2]

0.3

Worker characteristics

Management, professional, and related

–

4.4

3.1

6.0

–

[2]

0.1

Professional and related

–

4.7

3.3

6.2

0.4

0.1

0.2

Teachers

–

4.9

3.1

5.8

0.6

0.1

Primary, secondary, and special education
school teachers

–

5.2

3.5

5.2

–

[2]

0.4

Service

–

4.4

2.4

5.1

1.7

0.1

–

Protective service

–

6.0

2.0

5.4

–

0.1

Sales and office

–

4.2

3.4

5.7

–

[2]

–

Office and administrative support

–

4.3

3.5

5.7

–

[2]

–

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

–

4.2

3.4

4.0

–

[2]

0.3

Production, transportation, and material moving

–

6.4

6.5

4.0

–

0.1

[2]

Full time

–

3.6

2.6

5.0

–

[2]

0.2

Part time

–

8.1

8.0

–

0.1

0.3

Union

–

3.1

3.3

3.2

–

[2]

0.0

Nonunion

–

5.3

2.6

6.8

–

0.1

Average wage within the following categories:³

Lowest 25 percent

–

6.0

4.5

7.8

–

0.1

0.3

Lowest 10 percent

–

10.0

–

0.1

0.4

Second 25 percent

–

4.3

3.2

5.8

1.0

[2]

–

Third 25 percent

–

4.2

3.0

5.1

–

[2]

–

Highest 25 percent

–

3.4

2.7

4.3

–

[2]

0.0

Highest 10 percent

–

6.1

4.2

–

1.3

0.1

Establishment characteristics

Service-providing industries

–

3.7

2.6

5.1

–

[2]

0.3

Education and health services

–

5.3

3.4

7.2

0.3

0.1

Educational services

–

5.1

3.4

7.1

0.3

0.1

0.0

Elementary and secondary schools

–

4.2

3.3

5.1

0.3

[2]

0.1

Junior colleges, colleges, and universities

–

10.2

–

1.0

0.1

–

Health care and social assistance

–

8.2

5.4

–

0.1

0.0

Hospitals

–

11.4

–

0.1

–

Public administration

–

4.2

2.3

3.1

–

0.1

0.0

1 to 99 workers

–

10.1

–

0.1

–

1 to 49 workers

–

11.0

–

0.1

–

50 to 99 workers

–

13.6

–

0.1

–

100 workers or more

–

3.7

2.6

5.1

–

[2]

0.2

100 to 499 workers

–

5.4

4.8

6.5

1.8

0.1

0.0

500 workers or more

–

4.6

2.6

6.1

–

0.1

0.4

State government

–

8.1

4.0

–

0.7

0.1

0.3

Local government

–

3.0

2.5

3.3

–

[2]

0.4

Geographic areas

Northeast

–

6.3

5.0

2.5

3.2

0.1

0.0

Middle Atlantic

–

6.0

5.1

2.6

3.6

0.1

0.0

South

–

5.9

2.7

7.1

–

0.1

0.3

South Atlantic

–

5.3

2.5

5.6

–

0.1

–

East South Central

–

17.2

–

0.2

0.0

West South Central

–

5.5

–

8.0

–

0.1

0.0

Midwest

–

7.4

–

0.5

0.1

0.3

East North Central

–

5.2

2.2

4.5

0.4

[2]

0.0

West North Central

–

9.2

–

0.1

0.2

West

–

5.4

–

[2]

0.0

Mountain

–

8.3

–

0.1

0.0

Pacific

–

6.7

–

0.1

0.0

¹Includes participants in plans in which insurance equaled a multiple of earnings plus or minus a specified amount.
²Less than 0.05.
³Surveyed 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.
Note: 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/glossary20152016.htm.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.

Standard ErrorsLife insurance plans: Fixed multiple of annual earnings benefit formulas

Standard Errors
Life insurance plans: Fixed multiple of annual earnings benefit formulas