Table 8. Medical care benefits: Median number of days or visits covered per year for selected
services by type of plan, state and local government workers, National Compensation Survey, 2011

(Includes all workers participating in plans with specified day limits)
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                            Skilled nursing facility          Home health care      
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
            Characteristics                                    Health                        Health 
                                                    Fee-for- maintena-            Fee-for- maintena-
                                         All plans  service     nce    All plans  service     nce   
                                                     plans   organiza-             plans   organiza-
                                                               tions                         tions  
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
All workers.............................       100       100       100       100       100       100
                                                                                                    
         Worker characteristic                                                                      
                                                                                                    
Management, professional, and related...       100       100       100       100       100       100
  Professional and related..............       100       100       100       100       100       100
    Teachers............................       100       100       100        90        90       100
      Primary, secondary, and special                                                               
      education school teachers.........       100       100       100        90        90       100
Service.................................       100       100       100       100        90       100
  Protective service....................       100         –       100       100       100       100
Sales and office........................       100       100       100       100       100       100
  Office and administrative support.....       100       100       100       100       100       100
Natural resources, construction, and                                                                
maintenance.............................       100        90       100        90        90         –
Production, transportation, and material                                                            
moving..................................       100        90         –         –       100         –
                                                                                                    
Full time...............................       100       100       100       100       100       100
Part time...............................       100       100       100       100       100       100
                                                                                                    
Union...................................       100       100       100       100       100       100
Nonunion................................       100        90       100        90        90        60
                                                                                                    
Average wage within the following                                                                   
categories:(1)                                                                                      
  Lowest 25 percent.....................        90         –       100        90        90         –
  Second 25 percent.....................       100       100       100       100       100       100
  Third 25 percent......................       100       100       100       100       100         –
  Highest 25 percent....................       100       100       100       100       100       100
    Highest 10 percent..................       100       120       100       100       100       100
                                                                                                    
      Establishment characteristic                                                                  
                                                                                                    
Service-providing industries............       100       100       100       100       100       100
  Education and health services.........       100       100       100       100        90       100
    Educational services................       100       100       100       100        90       100
      Elementary and secondary schools..       100       100       100        90        90       100
      Junior colleges, colleges, and                                                                
      universities......................       100       100       100       100       120        90
    Health care and social assistance...       100       100       100       100       100         –
      Hospitals.........................         –         –       100        90       100         –
  Public administration.................       100       100       100       100       100       100
                                                                                                    
1 to 99 workers.........................         –         –       100         –        90         –
  1 to 49 workers.......................       100         –         –        60         –         –
  50 to 99 workers......................         –         –       100         –         –         –
100 workers or more.....................       100       100       100       100       100       100
  100 to 499 workers....................       100       100       100        90        90         –
  500 workers or more...................       100       100       100       100       100       100
                                                                                                    
State government........................       100       100       100       100       120        60
Local government........................       100       100       100        90        90       100
                                                                                                    
            Geographic area                                                                         
                                                                                                    
New England.............................       100         –       100         –         –         –
Middle Atlantic.........................         –         –       120       120       120         –
East North Central......................       120       120       120         –        90        60
West North Central......................         –         –         –        60        60        60
South Atlantic..........................       100       100       100        90       100        60
West South Central......................        60        60         –       120       120         –
Mountain................................         –         –       100         –         –        60
Pacific.................................       100         –       100       100       120       100

  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.

NOTE: 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.