Table 2. Wages as a percent of total compensation, and associated relative standard error, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation in private industry in the United States and by geographic region, census division, and locality, March 2009

Table 2. Wages as a percent of total compensation, and associated relative standard error, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation in private industry in the United States and by geographic region, census division, and locality, March 2009.
Area	Wages as a percent of compensation costs	Relative standard error of wages as a percent of compensation costs
United States	70.8	0.2
Northeast	69.6	0.3
New England	70.4	0.4
Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH	70.5	1.1
Middle Atlantic	69.3	0.4
New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA	68.9	0.5
Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD	68.1	3.2
South	71.9	0.2
South Atlantic	71.9	0.3
Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV	72.0	0.9
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL	71.5	0.7
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL	74.3	0.8
East South Central	71.4	1.0
West South Central	72.3	0.4
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX	71.6	1.0
Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX	72.6	1.4
Midwest	70.3	0.3
East North Central	70.0	0.4
Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL, IN, WI	70.0	0.9
Detroit-Warren-Flint, MI	67.5	0.7
West North Central	71.0	0.6
Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI	70.3	1.4
West	71.1	0.4
Mountain	72.5	1.0
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ	73.5	0.8
Pacific	70.6	0.4
Los Angeles-Long Beach- Riverside, CA	71.3	1.1
San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA	70.5	0.5
Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, WA	70.2	0.9