May 30, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Benefits bigger piece of union compensation
In March 1999,
union workers received much more of their compensation in the form of
benefits than did nonunion workers.
[Chart data—TXT]
The proportion of compensation costs accounted for by benefits was 34.5
percent for all union workers and 25.6 percent for nonunion workers.
Blue-collar union workers received benefits totaling 36.3 percent of their
compensation while blue-collar nonunion workers received 27.2 percent.
In goods-producing industries, benefit costs accounted for 36.4 percent
of compensation for union workers compared with 28.5 percent for nonunion
workers. In service-producing industries, union workers received benefits
totaling 32.6 percent of compensation compared with 24.7 percent for
nonunion members. In both goods-producing and service-producing
industries, the differential between the union and nonunion percentages
was the same—7.9 percentage points.
These data are a product of the BLS Employment
Cost Trends program. Additional
information is available from "Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation, 1986-99," BLS Bulletin 2526.
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