December 12, 2002 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Average compensation $23.44 per hour in SeptemberIn September 2002, employer costs for employee compensation for civilian workers in the United States averaged $23.44 per hour worked.
Wages and salaries, which averaged $16.93, accounted for 72.2 percent of these costs, while benefits, which averaged $6.51, accounted for the remainder. These data are from the BLS Employment Cost Trends program. Additional information is available from
"Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, September
2002," news release USDL 02-674. Civilian workers include private industry and State and local government workers. Happy 10th Birthday, TED!The very first issue of The Editor's Desk (TED) was posted on September 28, 1998. TED was the first online-only publication of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For 10 years, BLS has been committed to posting a new TED article each business day, for a total of over 2,400 articles so far. |
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