{"id":479291,"date":"2026-09-29T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:08:33","slug":"employer-costs-for-employee-compensation-in-san-jose-area-averaged-75-12-in-march-2026-the-economics-daily-u-s-bureau-of-labor-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/479291\/","title":{"rendered":"Employer costs for employee compensation in San Jose area averaged $75.12 in March 2026 : The Economics Daily : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           September 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Of the 15 largest areas, San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, California, had among the highest average compensation costs for private industry workers in March 2026 at $75.12 per hour worked. Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, Florida, had among the lowest average compensation costs at $37.84 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>      Compensation costs (in dollars) per hour worked for private industry workers by combined statistical area, March 2026  AreaWages and salariesBenefitsTotal compensation <\/p>\n<p>San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA<\/p>\n<p>50.8324.2975.12<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD<\/p>\n<p>43.9120.7364.64<\/p>\n<p>Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA<\/p>\n<p>44.6518.3763.02<\/p>\n<p>New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA<\/p>\n<p>38.7319.1457.87<\/p>\n<p>Seattle-Tacoma, WA<\/p>\n<p>38.8916.3855.28<\/p>\n<p>Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH<\/p>\n<p>37.5717.6755.24<\/p>\n<p>Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI<\/p>\n<p>34.6417.2951.93<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA<\/p>\n<p>35.0016.3851.38<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI<\/p>\n<p>35.4515.6551.11<\/p>\n<p>Houston-Pasadena, TX<\/p>\n<p>34.8115.0149.82<\/p>\n<p>Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI<\/p>\n<p>33.8115.5649.37<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix-Mesa, AZ<\/p>\n<p>33.1412.7945.93<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-Sandy Springs, GA-AL<\/p>\n<p>28.4511.4039.85<\/p>\n<p>Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK<\/p>\n<p>27.4811.5739.05<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL<\/p>\n<p>27.7110.1337.84  <\/p>\n<p>In the San Jose area, wages and salaries accounted for $50.83 or 67.7 percent of the hourly total, while the remaining $24.29 (32.3 percent) reflected employer costs for benefits. For the Miami area, wages and salaries accounted for $27.71 or 73.2 percent of the hourly total, while the remaining $10.13 (26.8 percent) reflected employer costs for benefits.<\/p>\n<p>These data are from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ecec\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Employer Costs for Employee Compensation<\/a> program and are not seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/ecec_06122026.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Employer Costs for Employee Compensation \u2014 March 2026<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ecec\/factsheets\/ecec-metro-areas-factsheet.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Area Estimates: the cost of compensation in American cities<\/a>.\u201d We also have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/charts\/employer-costs-for-employee-compensation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more charts on employer costs for employee compensation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  OF INTEREST<br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"triangle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ted_message_triangle.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 28, 2026 Of the 15 largest areas, San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, California, had among the highest average compensation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-479291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}