2007 Employee Benefits in Private Industry — 2007-08-22

Sixty percent of establishments in private industry offered medical care benefits to their employees in March 2007, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employers paid 81 percent of the cost of premiums for single coverage and 71 percent of the cost for family coverage for workers participating in employer sponsored medical plans. These findings are from the Summary, "National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2007," published today. These results can be found on the BLS Web site http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/sp/ebsm0006.pdf. These data are from the National Compensation Survey (NCS), which provides comprehensive measures of occupational earnings, compensation cost trends, and details of benefit provisions. In addition to health and retirement plans, the survey also covered paid leave, disability insurance, and other selected benefits. This release is the first release of data on employee benefits under the new North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.