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Compensation costs in private industry averaged $34.77 per hour worked in September 2019
January 02, 2020
Employer costs for employee compensation for private industry workers averaged $34.77 per hour worked in September 2019. Wages and salaries averaged $24.38 per hour worked and accounted for 70.1 percent of these costs. Benefit costs averaged $10.38 and accounted for the remaining 29.9 percent. In the utilities industry, total compensation costs averaged $63.68 per hour worked in September; benefits accounted for 39.6 percent of compensation costs in the industry.
Private industry employer costs per hour worked for employee compensation by industry, September 2019
Industry
Total compensation
Wages and salaries
Benefits
All workers
$34.77
$24.38
$10.38
Utilities
63.68
38.47
25.21
Information
58.32
39.22
19.10
Financial activities
47.97
32.20
15.77
Educational services
47.66
34.32
13.34
Professional and business services
41.48
29.87
11.62
Construction
40.45
28.05
12.40
Manufacturing
40.01
26.19
13.81
Transportation and warehousing
39.14
25.24
13.89
Wholesale trade
37.80
26.71
11.08
Health care and social assistance
36.18
25.31
10.87
Other services
29.52
21.58
7.94
Retail trade
20.54
15.54
5.00
Leisure and hospitality
15.80
12.40
3.40
Total employer compensation costs in leisure and hospitality averaged $15.80 per hour worked in September. Benefits accounted for 21.5 percent of this total.
United States Department of Labor
