Employers spent an average of $30.69 per hour for employee compensation, according to March 2012 statistics reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Wages and salaries made up 69.3 percent of that number, or $21.27 an hour, while benefits made up the remaining 30.7 percent, or $9.42 an hour.
"Employer Costs for Employee Compensation," a product of the National Compensation Survey, measures employer costs for wages, salaries and employee benefits for nonfarm private and state and local government workers.
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