Mississippi Business Journal » compensation costs http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Average compensation costs exceed $27 per hour http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/12/average-compensation-costs-exceed-27-per-hour/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=average-compensation-costs-exceed-27-per-hour http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/12/average-compensation-costs-exceed-27-per-hour/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:04:20 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=20561 Private industry employers spent an average of $27.42 per hour worked for total employee compensation in Dec. 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Wages and salaries averaged $19.41 per hour worked and accounted for 70.8 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $8.00 and accounted for the remaining 29.2 percent. Total compensation costs [...]

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