BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

Applies To: All Applications

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BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

Applies To: All Applications

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http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.toc.htm

Used to calculate value of a job’s fringe benefits when applying the Select Benefits from BLS Data method. Added data from 2015.

We downloaded the CES data using the series ID formats discussed here:

¢http://www.bls.gov/help/hlpforma.htm

We used 2,409 series IDs to download the data.

We downloaded the data by starting here and pasting in the series IDs:

¢http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/srgate

On the next screen, for the 2015 data, we selected the following settings:

BLS_ECEC_Download_Settings

Data Citations

The dynamic data citations that appear in the report have been enhanced to reference the correct data.

Q4 2015 BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_03102016.htm

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_03102016.pdf

U.S. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employer Costs For Employee Compensation – December 2015. Web. 04 April 2016. <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_03102016.htm>