Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $30.80 per hour worked in September 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages and salaries averaged $21.32 per hour worked and accounted for 69.2 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $9.48 and accounted for the remaining 30.8 percent.
Total employer compensation costs for private industry workers averaged $28.95 per hour worked in September 2012.
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, a product of the National Compensation Survey, measures employer costs for wages, salaries and employee benefits for non-farm private and state and local government workers.
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