December 23, 2011

HR Fact Friday: How Much Does Compensation Really Cost Me?

Filed under: Compensation — Tags: , — Paul @ 6:00 am

If you have ever asked this question, you’re in luck.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calculates and publishes this information. The latest information available was for September 2011.  Employer costs for state and local government workers averaged $26.57 per hour worked for wages and salaries and $14.19 for benefits in September 2011.  State and local government health benefit costs averaged $4.74 per hour worked in September 2011.  For more information, including a detailed breakdown of the costs, please go to http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm.

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May 26, 2010

In Which States Do Women Earn the Most Money?

Filed under: General HR Buzz — Tags: , — Jane @ 1:50 pm

According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report women across the country still earn significantly less than male employees…20% less in fact.

But that wage gap differs a lot around the country.  Washington D.C. comes in with the smallest gap.  Women in the District of Columbia make 92.2% of men.  That’s likely attributable to the large number of government jobs available.

D.C. is followed by Maryland, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.   Southern and western states have the highest pay gaps.  Women in Mississippi experience the highest gap and earn 75% of males.

Additionally, a U.S. Census Bureau study Women, Men, and the New Economics of Marriage, has found that in 2007, 22% of women earned more than their husbands, that’s up from only 4% in 1970.  Wives’ educational levels have also increased.

In 1970 20% of women had more education than their spouses.  That increased to 28% in 2007.  Just 19% of men had more education than their wives in 2007 vs. 28% in 1970.

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October 31, 2008

HR Fact Friday: Women’s Pay Remains Above 80% of Mens

Filed under: Salaries & Pay — Tags: , , , — Paul @ 7:25 am

The earnings gap between women and men who work full time grew slightly in 2007, as men’s weekly pay incresed more than that of women, according to figures released recently by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Among the nation’s 106.1 million full-time wage and salary workers, median usual weekly earnings of women rose to $614 last year, up 2.3%, or $14, from the median of $600 in 2006, BLS said in a report posted on its Web site.  The median is the midpoint, meaning that half of the workers earned more than that amount while the other half earned less.

Men who worked full time saw their earnings climb even more, to a median of $766 per week in 2007, a gain of 3.1% or $23 from $743 the prior year.

As a result, the ratio of women’s earnings to those of men declined to 80.2% last year, down from 80.8% in 2006.

(more…)

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