Table 3. Medical care benefits: Amount of lifetime maximum, state and local government workers, National Compensation Survey, 2011

(All workers participating in medical care plans = 100 percent)
                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                            
                                                                         Amount of lifetime maximum                                         
                                                                                                                                            
                                                      With                                                     Unlimited              Not   
            Characteristics                Total    lifetime    10th      25th      50th      75th      90th    maximum    Other   determin-
                                                    maximum  percenti- percenti- percenti- percenti- percenti-                        able  
                                                                 le        le        le        le        le                                 
                                                                                  (median)                                                  
                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                            
All workers.............................       100        22   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         –
                                                                                                                                            
         Worker characteristic                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                            
Management, professional, and related...       100        22   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         –
  Professional and related..............       100        23   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         –
    Teachers............................       100        24         –   2000000   2000000         –   5000000        74         –         –
      Primary, secondary, and special                                                                                                       
      education school teachers.........       100        25         –   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        72         –         –
Service.................................       100        22   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         2
  Protective service....................       100        22   1000000         –   2000000         –   5000000        75         –         2
Sales and office........................       100        19   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        79         –         2
  Office and administrative support.....       100        18   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        80         –         2
Natural resources, construction, and                                                                                                        
maintenance.............................       100        23   1000000         –   2000000   5000000   5000000        75         –         2
Production, transportation, and material                                                                                                    
moving..................................       100        23         –   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        72         –         5
                                                                                                                                            
Full time...............................       100        22   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         –
Part time...............................       100        19         –   2000000   2000000   3000000   5000000        78         –         2
                                                                                                                                            
Union...................................       100        18   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        80         –         –
Nonunion................................       100        26   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        73         –         –
                                                                                                                                            
Average wage within the following                                                                                                           
categories:(1)                                                                                                                              
  Lowest 25 percent.....................       100        23   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        74         –         –
    Lowest 10 percent...................       100        25   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        73         –         2
  Second 25 percent.....................       100        22   1000000         –   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         1
  Third 25 percent......................       100        22   1000000   2000000   2000000         –   5000000        76         –         –
  Highest 25 percent....................       100        20   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        78         –         –
    Highest 10 percent..................       100        13         –   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        86         –         1
                                                                                                                                            
      Establishment characteristic                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                            
Service-providing industries............       100        22   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         –
  Education and health services.........       100        23   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         –
    Educational services................       100        22         –   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        76         –         –
      Elementary and secondary schools..       100        24         –   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        74         –         –
      Junior colleges, colleges, and                                                                                                        
      universities......................       100        17         –   2000000   2000000         –   5000000        83         –         –
    Health care and social assistance...       100        25   1000000         –   2000000   5000000   5000000        74         –         1
      Hospitals.........................       100        24   1000000         –   2000000         –   5000000        75         –         1
  Public administration.................       100        21   1000000         –   2000000   5000000   5000000        77         –         2
                                                                                                                                            
1 to 99 workers.........................       100        27   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        71         –         2
  1 to 49 workers.......................       100        21   1000000         –         –   5000000   5000000        78         –       (2)
  50 to 99 workers......................       100        35         –   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        61         –         3
100 workers or more.....................       100        21   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        77         –         –
  100 to 499 workers....................       100        27   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        71         –         –
  500 workers or more...................       100        19   1000000   2000000   2000000         –   5000000        79         –         2
                                                                                                                                            
State government........................       100        14         –   2000000   2000000   2000000   5000000        85         –       (2)
Local government........................       100        25   1000000   2000000   2000000   5000000   5000000        73         –         –
                                                                                                                                            
            Geographic area                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                            
New England.............................       100         –         –         –         –         –         –        93         –         2
Middle Atlantic.........................       100         6   1000000         –   2000000         –         –        94         –       (2)
East North Central......................       100        35         –   2000000         –   5000000   5000000        63         –         –
West North Central......................       100        29   1000000         –         –   5000000   5000000        69         –         2
South Atlantic..........................       100        25   1500000   2000000   2000000         –   5000000        74         –       (2)
West South Central......................         –        27   1000000         –   2000000   5000000   5000000        70         –         3
Mountain................................       100        44   2000000   2000000   2000000   2000000   5000000        54         –         2
Pacific.................................       100        15   2000000   2000000   2000000         –   5000000        82         –         3

  1 The categories are based on the average wage for each occupation surveyed, which may include workers with earnings both above and below
the threshold. The average wages are based on the estimates published in the "National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the
United States, 2010." See Technical Note for more details.
  2 Less than 0.5.

NOTE: Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal totals. Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data do not
meet publication criteria. For definitions of major plans, key provisions, and related terms, see the "Glossary of Employee Benefit Terms"
at www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/glossary20102011.htm.