Business prepaid cards for employees: Cost Of An Employee
The Cost Of An Employee carries 6 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 14.07 to 66.45 USD, read 12 September 2026.
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4 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
By component
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| componentsickness absence days per employee per year | 9.4day | 9.4 to 9.4day | 1 |
| componentannual turnover rate | 26.3% | 26.3 to 26.3% | 1 |
| componenttotal compensation per hour worked, civilian workers | 49.46USD | 49.46 to 49.46USD | 1 |
| componenttotal compensation per hour worked, private industry | 46.89USD | 46.89 to 46.89USD | 1 |
| componentwages and salaries per hour worked, private industry | 32.82USD | 32.82 to 32.82USD | 1 |
| componentbenefit cost per hour worked, private industry | 14.07USD | 14.07 to 14.07USD | 1 |
| componenttotal compensation per hour worked, state and local government | 66.45USD | 66.45 to 66.45USD | 1 |
| componentbenefit cost per hour worked, state and local government | 25.78USD | 25.78 to 25.78USD | 1 |
| componentquits rate | 1.9% | 1.9 to 1.9% | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| bls.gov | 66.45USD | total compensation per hour worked, state and local government | 2026-09-12 |
| bls.gov | 49.46USD | total compensation per hour worked, civilian workers | 2026-09-12 |
| bls.gov | 46.89USD | total compensation per hour worked, private industry | 2026-09-12 |
| bls.gov | 32.82USD | wages and salaries per hour worked, private industry | 2026-09-12 |
| Gallup workplace research | 26.3% | annual turnover rate | 2026-09-12 |
| bls.gov | 25.78USD | benefit cost per hour worked, state and local government | 2026-09-12 |
| bls.gov | 14.07USD | benefit cost per hour worked, private industry | 2026-09-12 |
| CIPD reports | 9.4day | sickness absence days per employee per year | 2026-09-12 |
| BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation | 1.9% | quits rate | 2026-09-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (9)
- bls.gov, read 2026-09-12:
Total employer compensation costs for state and local government workers averaged $66.45 per hour
- bls.gov, read 2026-09-12:
Employer costs for employee compensation for civilian workers averaged $49.46 per hour worked in June
- bls.gov, read 2026-09-12:
Total employer compensation costs for private industry workers averaged $46.89 per hour worked in June
- bls.gov, read 2026-09-12:
Wages and salaries averaged $32.82 and accounted for 70.0 percent of employer costs, while
- Gallup workplace research, read 2026-09-12:
The annual overall turnover rate in the U.S. in 2017 was 26.3%, based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- bls.gov, read 2026-09-12:
costs, while benefit costs averaged $25.78 and accounted for the remaining 38.8 percent.
- bls.gov, read 2026-09-12:
benefit costs averaged $14.07 and accounted for the remaining 30.0 percent.
- CIPD reports, read 2026-09-12:
The average number of absence days per employee per year has risen to 9.4 days, the highest in a more than 15 years.
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, read 2026-09-12:
The number and rate of quits were little changed at 3.1 million and 1.9 percent, respectively, over the
Read in full, publishes no figure
8 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Gallup workplace research, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- SHRM research, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ABS labour statistics, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- US Department of Labor, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
4 of the 13 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 84 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the true cost of an employee built up from the official components - the employer's share of payroll taxes and pension, the benefit cost per hour worked from the official compensation survey, the health-premium employer share, the service fee a PEO or benefits administrator charges - expressed as a multiplier on gross pay per jurisdiction, plus the turnover cost that the same components imply
84 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (15)
- CIPD reports(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Gallup workplace research(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Gallup workplace research(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- KFF Employer Health Benefits Survey(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SHRM research(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ABS labour statistics(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Eurofound surveys(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS labour market statistics(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US Department of Labor(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- bls.gov(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Cost Of An Employee carries 6 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 14.07 to 66.45 USD, read 12 September 2026.
4 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component sickness absence days per employee per year: median 9.40 day across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component annual turnover rate: median 26.30 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component total compensation per hour worked, civilian workers: median 49.46 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component total compensation per hour worked, private industry: median 46.89 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component wages and salaries per hour worked, private industry: median 32.82 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component benefit cost per hour worked, private industry: median 14.07 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component total compensation per hour worked, state and local government: median 66.45 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component benefit cost per hour worked, state and local government: median 25.78 USD across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cost Of An Employee, component quits rate: median 1.90 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cite as: "HeadcountDesk Cost Of An Employee", updated 2026-10-05, https://headcountdesk.com/datasets/cost-of-an-employee/.
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