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//EBS2 ZUNI3PO Test 10052021// Civilian workers' participation rate in medical care...10/05/2021
//EBS2 ZUNI3PO Test 10052021// 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 Charts Test 11042021// CJC2-Compensation costs up 0.8% Dec 2019 to Mar 2020 and up...11/04/2021
//ECI Charts Test 11042021// CJC2-Compensation costs increased 0.8 percent for civilian workers, seasonally adjusted, from December 2019 to March 2020.
Over the year, compensation rose 2.7 percent, wages and salaries rose 2.7 percent, and benefit costs rose 2.8 percent.
//ECEC F5 Test 05162022// Private industry compensation costs average $38.07 per hour...
05/16/2022
//ECEC F5 Test 05162022// Wage and salary costs for private industry workers averaged $26.86 per hour worked and benefit costs averaged $11.22 in December 2021. Supplemental pay costs were $1.32 per hour, accounting for 3.5 percent of total compensation costs. 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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