Employee Benefits Survey

Employee Benefits Survey from bls.gov

Overview

The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides comprehensive measures of compensation cost trends, the incidence of benefits, and detailed benefit provisions. This bulletin presents estimates of the detailed provisions of employer-provided health and retirement plans in private industry in 2010. Under the NCS program, information on the incidence and provision of benefits is published in stages. An earlier bulletin provided 2010 NCS data for civilian, State and local government, and private industry workers, on the incidence of (access to and participation in) selected benefits and detailed provisions of paid holidays, life insurance plans, and some other benefit plans, as well as on employer and employee shares of contributions to medical care premiums and their average amounts. Similar data for civilian, private industry, and State and local government workers for March 2011 will be issued later this year.

This bulletin of detailed health and retirement provisions this year includes basic health, defined benefit, and defined contribution tables. In addition, this year additional defined benefit retirement tables in private industry are included. Health tables in state and local government are scheduled to be published in the spring of 2012.

Questions regarding these data and recent and historical NCS benefits data can be addressed by calling the information line at (202) 691–6199 or by e-mailing to NCSInfo@bls.gov. Information is available to sensory-impaired individuals on request (Voice phone: (202) 691–5200; Federal Relay Service: 1 (800) 877–8339). Data requests also may be sent by mail to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Division of Compensation Data Analysis and Planning, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 4175, Washington, DC 20212. Material in this publication is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission.

Last Modified Date: August 24, 2011

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Basic Provisions - Health

Basic provisions - Retirement
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