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Benefits account for 30.9 percent of employee compensation, September 2013
December 20, 2013
In September 2013, wages and salaries averaged $21.54 per hour worked and accounted for 69.1 percent of total compensation costs, while benefits averaged $9.61 and accounted for the remaining 30.9 percent.
Employer costs as a percent of total compensation, civilian workers, September 2013
Compensation component
Percent distribution
Wages and salaries
69.1%
Benefits
30.9%
Insurance
9.0%
Legally required
7.8%
Paid leave
7.0%
Defined benefit
3.0%
Supplemental pay
2.4%
Defined contribution
1.8%
Wages and salaries for private industry workers averaged $20.55 per hour worked in September 2013 and accounted for 70.3 percent of total compensation costs, while benefits averaged $8.68 and accounted for the remaining 29.7 percent.
In September 2013, State and local government employers spent an average of $27.38 per hour worked on employee wages and salaries, accounting for 64.4 percent of total compensation costs. Benefits averaged $15.13 per hour worked and accounted for the remaining 35.6 percent
These data are from the Employment Cost Trends program. To learn more, see "Employer Costs for Employee Compensation — September 2013" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-13-2349.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Benefits account for 30.9 percent of employee compensation, September 2013 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2013/ted_20131220.htm (visited April 30, 2025).
United States Department of Labor
