| Employment Benefits. |
| Click on the blue button for a summary of information at the site |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |