Employment
Benefits.
Click on the blue button for a summary of information at the site
Benefit plans site.
Benefit plan management links.
Management Accounting Information Center

An Internet Site For Researching Management, Accounting, and Business  Information
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Websites linked to from this page hopefully will provide useful information to companies needing information on employee benefits.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Finding Employment-related and Payroll Information on the Internet” attempts to identify websites that accountants and companies can turn to when needing employment and payroll-related information. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute.
The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.
About.com resource site on employee benefits.
US Government’s laws and rules covering employee benefits offered by employers, from DOL.
Descriptions, definitions, compliance, and other information related to US law covering employer health plans, from the DOL.
National statistics on employment benefits, from DOL.
Employee benefits – resource sites.
Employee benefits – compliance.
Employee benefits – statistics.
   A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
             Search Blogs for
     Benefits-Related Information


This Yahoo Pipes product searches several benefits-related blogs for results related to the terms you enter in the box.  The purpose of this product is to quickly extract information from a pipe of feeds containing benefits information.

Click
here to go to this Yahoo Pipes product.

Right clicking should lead to being able to open a new window.
Employee commuting benefits.
The graph to the right was created using Google’s graph tools.

The horizontal bar graph shows compensation benefits as a percentage of total compensation for private workers in 2011 based on US Department of Labor survey data.

The total average compensation found was $28.10 of which wages and salaries was 70.8 % and other benefits was 29.2 %. 
 
Legally required benefits include social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and workers compensation

Supplemental pay includes shift differentials and non-production bonuses.

Health insurance accounted for 7.5 % of insurance benefit with the other 0.5 % made up of life and disability.

The graph provides a visual of how, on average across all businesses, an employee’s gross paid is divided up.

More details from the Department of Labor on costs for benefits in 2011 can be seen by clicking
here (PDF file).   Click here to go to the Department of Labor website on employment costs.
Benefits as a Percentage of Total Compensation
The graph to the right was created using Google’s graphing tools.

This horizontal bar graph shows the percentages of US companies offering 4 categories of benefits.  Interesting 33.3 % of companies offer no benefits.

This data is based on a US Census 2007 survey of US companies.  You can gain access to the survey data by clicking
here.  The percentages represent those companies responding that they offer the identified benefit.

This data should be useful to job seekers for realizing many companies offer no benefits.
Percentages of Companies Offering Various Benefits