• Unplanned and unscheduled absences cost employers 8.7 percent of payroll, more than half the 13.6 percent of payroll cost of health care in 2009.
  • Days lost per employee per year due to incidental unplanned absences averaged 5.4 days, and varied, across all employee classes, from 3.9 days for exempt employees, 4.9 for nonexempt salaried, 5.8 for nonunion hourly, and 7.3 for union hourly.
  • The total costs, direct and indirect, of all major absence categories average 35 percent of base payroll, ranging from 29 percent for exempt employees, 36 percent for nonexempt salaried, 39 percent for nonunion hourly workers and 38 percent for union hourly.

Source: Survey on the Total Financial Impact of Employee Absence, Kronos Inc.

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