Life insurance plans: Employee contribution requirement Data Table
Table 13. Life insurance plans: Employee contribution requirement, State and local government workers, National Compensation Survey, March 2008
(All workers with basic life insurance coverage = 100 percent)
Characteristics
Employee contribution not required
Employee contribution required
All workers
89
11
Worker characteristics
Management, professional, and related
88
12
Professional and related
88
12
Teachers
89
11
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers
89
11
Service
89
11
Protective service
89
11
Sales and office
90
10
Office and administrative support
90
10
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance
91
9
Production, transportation, and material moving
96
4
Full time
89
11
Part time
92
8
Union
91
9
Nonunion
87
13
Average wage within the following percentiles:1
10 to under 25
90
10
25 to under 50
88
12
50 to under 75
91
9
75 to under 90
91
9
90 or greater
86
14
Establishment characteristics
Service-providing industries
89
11
Education and health services
89
11
Educational services
88
12
Elementary and secondary schools
90
10
Health care and social assistance
92
8
Hospitals
92
8
Public administration
89
11
1 to 99 workers
90
10
1 to 49 workers
89
11
50 to 99 workers
91
9
100 workers or more
89
11
100 to 499 workers
88
12
500 workers or more
89
11
State government
83
17
Local government
91
9
Geographic areas
New England
69
31
Middle Atlantic
93
7
East North Central
86
14
West North Central
94
6
South Atlantic
87
13
West South Central
94
6
Mountain
96
4
Pacific
97
3
Footnotes:
1The percentile groupings are based on the average wage for each occupation surveyed, which may include workers both above and below the threshold. The percentile values are based on the estimates published in the "National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2007." See Technical Note for more details.
NOTE: Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal totals. Dash indicates no workers in this category or data did not meet publication criteria.