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COVID-19 vaccinations were required for some or all employees before coming to work onsite at 17.5 percent of U.S. establishments. Among these establishments, 45.9 percent offered vaccination incentives to their employees. Incentives included financial incentives, paid time off, or permitting employees to remain on the clock to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
Employment size | Percent of establishments that offered an incentive | Percent of establishments that did not offer an incentive |
---|---|---|
Total U.S. private sector |
45.9% | 54.1% |
1–499 employees |
45.8 | 54.2 |
1–4 employees |
40.8 | 59.2 |
5–9 employees |
52.0 | 48.0 |
10–19 employees |
48.9 | 51.1 |
20–49 employees |
56.0 | 44.0 |
50–99 employees |
56.7 | 43.3 |
100–249 employees |
55.0 | 45.0 |
250–499 employees |
60.0 | 40.0 |
500 or more employees |
76.9 | 23.1 |
500–999 employees |
75.9 | 24.1 |
1,000 or more employees |
78.7 | 21.3 |
Smaller establishments that required vaccinations to work onsite offered vaccine incentives at a lower rate than larger establishments. Among establishments with 1 to 4 employees, 40.8 percent offered vaccination incentives. By comparison, more than three-fourths of the largest establishments (500 to 999 employees and 1,000 employees or more) that required vaccinations to work onsite offered vaccine incentives.
These data are from the Business Response Survey to the Coronavirus Pandemic. For more information, see U.S. Business Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic — 2021. We also have more charts on how businesses responded to the pandemic.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Nearly half of establishments that required COVID-19 vaccinations offered incentives at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/nearly-half-of-establishments-that-required-covid-19-vaccinations-offered-incentives.htm (visited November 04, 2024).