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Companies focusing less on traditional benefits

D.C.-area companies are offering their workers new benefits in an attempt to cut their health care costs.

By Jack Craver | Updated on July 27, 2015
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Businesses in the Washington D.C. and Baltimore metropolitan area are offering their workers new benefits in an attempt to cut their health care costs.

According to a new survey of 160 businesses in the area, conducted by the National Capital Area branch of the Society for Human Resource Management, companies are poised to spend only 26.3 percent of their compensation budgets on worker benefits this year, reports the Washington Post. The percentage of payroll devoted to benefits has been on a steady decline since SHRM began doing the poll in 2006, when companies reported spending 32.2 percent on benefits.

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