94 percent of managers, 56 percent of construction and extraction workers had paid sick leave, 2019

Seventy-three percent of private industry workers had paid sick leave benefits available from their employers in March 2019. Ninety-four percent of workers in management, business, and financial occupations had sick leave benefits. This compares with 58 percent of workers in service occupations and 56 percent of workers in construction, extraction, farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.

These data are from the National Compensation Survey — Benefits program. For more information, see “Employee Benefits in the United States — March 2019.” We also have more details about paid leave and other benefits in our 2019 bulletin. For more information about terms related to employee benefits, see our glossary.