Employee Benefits in the United States

July 26, 2011
Paid vacations were available to 91 percent of full-time workers in private industry in March 2011 versus 37 percent of part-time workers. Access to paid sick leave was 75 percent for full-time and 27 percent for part-time private industry workers. More...
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Current EBS News Releases

• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2011 (TXT) (PDF)
• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2010 (TXT) (PDF)
• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2009 (TXT) (PDF)
• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2008 (TXT) (PDF)
• Employee Benefits in State and Local Government, September 2007 (HTML) (PDF)

Databases

Database Name	Special Notice	Top Picks	One Screen	Multi- Screen	Tables	Text Files
Benefit Incidence & Provisions
Employee Benefits Survey
National Compensation Survey - Benefits (Beginning with 2010 data)

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  • Employee Benefits Survey
  • National Compensation Survey - Benefits (Beginning with 2010 data)

• Benefits Search--allows you to search through all the benefits publications that are currently available electronically.

National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2011

September 2011
Bulletin 2771
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Tables organized by ownership

Employee benefits data tables: United States, March 2011 (Tab view)

• Civilian (includes private industry and state and local government establishments)
• Private industry (excludes agricultural establishments, private households, and the self-employed)
• State and local government (excludes Federal employees)
• View all by ownership group

Tables organized by benefit

Employee benefits data tables: United States, March 2011 (Tab view)

• Retirement benefits
• Health care benefits
• Life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance benefits
• Holiday, vacation, sick, and other leave benefits
• Other benefits
• Benefit combinations
• Establishment data
• View all benefits

Overview

Technical note

Glossary

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Appendix table 1 (HTML) (PDF)

Appendix table 2 (HTML) (PDF)

National Compensation Survey: Health and Retirement Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2010

August 2011
Bulletin 2770

To print all tables in bulletin: (PDF of Entire 2010 Benefits Bulletin)

Overview

Tables

Basic provisions - Health

• Medical care benefits
• Non-high deductible health plans
• Fee-for-service plans
• Health maintenance organizations
• High-deductible and consumer driven plans
• Outpatient prescription drug benefits

Basic provisions - Retirement

• Defined Contribution plans
• Savings and thrift plans
• Defined Benefit plans

Additional provisions - Defined benefit plans

• Defined Benefit plans
• Traditional defined benefit plans

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Glossary

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Technical note

Appendix table 1 (TXT) (PDF)

Appendix table 2 (TXT) (PDF)

• Recent retirement benefits data
• Recent health benefits data
• Standard Errors
• National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States - March 2010 [HTML by Benefits] [HTML by Ownership]
• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2010, News Release [PDF] [TXT]
• Special Notice: Corrected estimates of worker access to nonproduction bonuses
• Handbook of Methods, Chapter 8, National Compensation Measures (PDF)
• Definition of health care benefits terms

All NCS Publications (including benefits, compensation costs, and wages) »

People Are Asking...

1. I am reviewing our current benefits to see how they compare with those of other small companies. Do you have any information that could help?
2. How much do employees pay for health care?
3. Under Flexible Spending Accounts, can an employer reimburse in monthly increments as the employee's contributions are made, or do they have to under all circumstances remit the full reimbursement at the time the receipt is received?
4. How prevalent are cash account (cash balance) pension plans?
5. Are more workers covered by indemnity plans or HMOs?
6. What is a floor-offset plan?
7. Is my company mandated to give me a specific number of paid holidays?
8. Who do I contact if my company has not provided me the benefits it promised?
9. Do you provide information on the percent of workers with employer-provided health insurance?

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What types of benefit data do you have?
2. For what worker and establishment characteristics are benefit data available?
3. How much has the cost of employer-provided benefits increased in the last 5 years?
4. Can I get estimates on benefits for a specific position?
5. Can I get projections on benefits?
6. Are there micro data available to the public?
7. Does BLS track sick-leave usage rates among government employees or any type of employees?
8. What percentage of the American work force is covered by benefit s such as employer provided childcare or adoption assistance?
9. Do you have information on mandatory benefits, and when an employee has the right to receive them?

All EBS FAQs »

• Corrected estimates of worker access to nonproduction bonuses

Other BLS Programs

• National Compensation Survey—designed to integrate data from separate BLS compensation surveys—currently provides earnings data by worker characteristics and establishment characteristics and by geographic area.
• Compensation Cost Trends—quarterly indexes measuring change over time in labor costs and quarterly data measuring level of average costs per hour worked.
• Wages—provides data on occupational wages for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation.

Other Useful Links

• Employment Standards Administration—administers a variety of programs protecting the basic rights of workers, including minimum wage and hour standards, and equal employment opportunity.
• Employee Benefit Research Institute—offers a detailed description of private- and public-sector employee benefit programs as they exist today.
• Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)

Contacts

The Office of Compensation Levels and Trends, Branch of Survey Information and Publications, will be glad to assist you with questions about any of the components of the National Compensation Survey.

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