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5. Industry Variations

FRINGE Benefit payments varied widely from industry to industry. Hotels paid 13.4%, textile products and apparel 17.4%, and pulp, paper, lumber and furniture paid 17.5%. Banks, finance and trust companies paid 31.7%, the petroleum industry paid 27.3%, and insurance companies paid 26.7%. But this should not be interpreted to mean that some industries (or companies) are laggard, because in many cases both the employer and the workers may prefer to have income reflected entirely or chiefly in the pay envelope.

Expressed as cents per payroll hour, payments ranged from 16.0¢ for hotels to 78.2¢ for the petroleum industry. Annual dollars per employee varied from $354 for hotels to $1650 for the petroleum industry.

The proportionate amount paid for various types of benefits also showed wide ranges. Legally required payments constituted over one-third of the total fringe payments for hotels, but less than onetenth the total for the petroleum industry. Pension and other agreed-upon payments made up less than

TABLE 5. Major Types of Fringe Payments by Industry Groups, 1957

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CHART 1. Fringe Payments as Per Cent of Payroll, by Industry Groups, 1020 Companies, 1957

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21.8%

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TABLE 6. Fringe Payments as Per Cent of Payroll, by Type of Payment and Industry Groups, 1957

Total fringe payments as per cent of payroll..

1. Legally required payments (employer's share only).

a. Old-Age and Survivors Insurance...

b. Unemployment Compensation:

c. Workmen's compensation (including estimated cost for self-insured)...

d. Railroad Retirement Tax, Railroad Unemployment Insurance, state sickness benefits insurance, etc......

2. Pension and other agreed-upon payments (employer's share only)..

a. Pension-plan premiums and pension payments not covered by insurance-type plan (net).

. b. Life insurance premiums, death benefits, sickness, acci-
dent and medical-care insurance premiums, hospitali-
zation insurance, etc. (net)

c. Contributions to privately financed unemployment benefit funds.

d. Separation or termination pay allowances.

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e. Discounts on goods and services purchased from company by employees...

f. Miscellaneous payments (free meals, compensation pay-
ments in excess of legal requirements, payments to
needy employees, tuition refunds, savings and stock
purchase plans, etc.).

3. Paid rest periods, lunch periods, wash-up time, travel time, clothes-change time, get-ready time, etc...

4. Payments for time not worked.

a. Paid vacations and bonuses in lieu of vacation.

b. Payments for holidays not worked.

c. Paid sick leave...

d. Payments for State or National Guard duty, jury, wit-
ness and voting pay allowances, payments for time
lost due to death in family or other personal reasons,

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TABLE 7.

Fringe Payments as Cents Per Payroll Hour, by Type of Payment and Industry Groups, 1957

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**Less than 0.05.

*Includes coal mining, warehousing and laundries.

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