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Total benefits cost

Total employer-paid benefit cost for a defined worker cohort and period.

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

Quarterly BLS ECEC employer-paid compensation costs per employee hour and component shares of total compensation. Dimensions include civilian/private/state-local ownership, occupation, industry, establishment size, bargaining and work status, national/region/division and metro geographies. March adds compensation-percentile and named-metro estimates. API, CM flat files/dictionaries, XLSX, HTML/PDF releases and historical vintages are coordinated surfaces of one product. Employee-benefit incidence/access/participation tables are a separate NCS product.

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Employee benefit cost benchmarks

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