May 16, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Trends in health insurance
In March 1999,
health insurance accounted for 5.4 percent of total compensation in
private industry, the same as in 1998.
[Chart data—TXT]
Health insurance rose as a proportion of compensation in the early
1990s and peaked in 1994. The proportion increased from 6.0 percent in
1991 to 6.7 percent in 1994. Then the percentage dropped to 6.2 percent in
1995 and 5.9 percent in 1996. Since then, health insurance as a proportion
of compensation has been about 5-1/2 percent.
These data are a product of the BLS Employment
Cost Trends program. Additional
information is available from "Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation, 1986-99," BLS Bulletin 2526.
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