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//EBS2 ZUNI3PO Test 11/2/2020// Civilian workers' participation rate in medical care...09/24/2020
//EBS2 ZUNI3PO Test 11/2/2020// Retirement and medical care benefits were available to 70 percent of civilian workers in March 2017. About two-thirds of private industry workers and 9 out of 10 state and local government workers had access to these benefits.
//ECI ZUNI3PO Testing 10272020// Compensation costs up 0.5% March-June 201907/31/2020
//ECI ZUNI3PO Testing 10272020// Wages and salaries rose 0.4 percent and benefit costs rose 0.6 percent for civilian workers.
//ECEC ZUNI3PO Test 11/2/2020// State and local government compensation costs09/17/2020
//ECEC ZUNI3PO Test 11/2/2020// Private employers spent an average of $28.10 an hour for compensation in December 2019. Subscribe to the BLS News Service — receive National Compensation Survey news releases and other major economic indicators by e-mail. Archived News Releases
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