Employee Benefits Survey

Employee Benefits in the United States

July 28, 2009
About 70 percent of workers in private industry had access to employer provided medical care benefits in March 2009. Only 25 percent of the lowest wage earners received such benefits, compared to the 90 percent of the highest wage earners. More...
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Current EBS News Releases

• 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)
• Employee Benefits in Private Industry, 2006 (PDF)(TXT)
• Employee Benefits in Private Industry, 2005 (PDF)(TXT)

 

EBS Databases

Databases

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Benefit Incidence & Provisions
Employee Benefits Survey

 

More Tools

• Series Report—Already know the series identifier for the statistic you want? Use this shortcut to retrieve your data.
• Flat files FTP Site —For those who want it all. Download a flat file of the entire database or large subset of the database.
• Benefits Search--allows you to search through all the benefits publications that are currently available electronically.

 

Annual Benefits Bulletin

National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2009

September 2009
Bulletin 2731
To print all tables in bulletin: (PDF of Entire 2009 Benefits Bulletin)

Tables organized by ownership

Employee benefits data tables: United States, March 2009 (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 benefits

Employee benefits data tables: United States, March 2009 (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
• 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 Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2008

July 2009
Bulletin 2719

To print all tables in bulletin: (PDF of Entire 2008 Benefits Bulletin)

Overview

Tables

Basic provisions

• Medical care benefits
• Fee-for-service plans
• Health maintenance organizations
• Outpatient prescription drug benefits

Additional provisions

• Medical care benefits
• Fee-for-service plans
• Health maintenance organizations
• Selected benefits by type of plan
• Mental health care and substance abuse treatment benefits by type of plan
• Mental health and substance abuse treatment benefits, median days or visits covered
• Dental care benefits
• Vision care benefits

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Glossary

Search all tables for key words

Technical note

Appendix table 1 (TXT) (PDF)

Appendix table 2 (TXT) (PDF)

 

EBS Publications

• Standard Errors – March 2009 News Release
• National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States - March 2009 [HTML by Benefits] [HTML by Ownership]
• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2009, News Release [PDF] [TXT]
• Special Notice: Corrected estimates of worker access to nonproduction bonuses
• Definition of health care benefits terms

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

 

EBS Frequently Asked Questions

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 »

 

EBS Special Notices

• Corrected estimates of worker access to nonproduction bonuses

 

EBS Related Links

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)

 

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