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Are wages or salary fully covered by workers’ compensation insurance?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

A December 2018 slip and fall in a wet stairwell of her employer’s office building resulted in a back injury and a cracked rib. In my previous post, [see Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it? ] I presented a graphic of showing the average employer cost of employee compensation for an hour of work in the US.

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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

.); "total amount paid to employees over a period," hence, via records-keeping, "list of employees receiving pay." [ See [link] ] Today, the word “payroll” more often than not refers to the department or system that manage employer costs for a range of employee compensation components.

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Understanding the cost of employee benefits & what it means for your company

Genesis HR Solutions

401(k) and retirement plans. Sometimes benefits are paid for wholly by employers; other times they are paid for by employees, and sometimes the expenses are shared. What percentage of total compensation is benefits? According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics , Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $36.32