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Table of Contents INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................................................1 PART 1 – OVERALL ANALYSIS...............................................................................................................................2 VACATIONS, LEAVE, AND HOLIDAYS.................................................................................................................................2 ALLEN COUNTY 2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY Vacation or Vacation included as part of PTO.......................................................................................................2 AND OCCUPATIONAL WAGE DATA Paid Holidays.........................................................................................................................................................3 ALLEN COUNTY Paid Funeral Leave................................................................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION Paid Sick Leave or Sick Leave included in PTO.......................................................................................................4 2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY Approximately 340 employers were contacted in November 2008 by the Community Research Institute (CRI) on Paid Jury Duty.......................................................................................................................................................4 behalf of the Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance and asked to complete an employee fringe AND OCCUPATIONAL WAGE DATA benefit survey. This was not a random survey; employers that were recognized as major employers in Allen County, Holiday Premium Pay............................................................................................................................................5 both public and private, were contacted in addition to a number of companies that were new to the county or had an expansion announced in 2008. A printed survey was enclosed as well as instructions offering the company the Other Leaves:........................................................................................................................................................5 option of responding electronically. A follow-up post card was sent to in December. A total of 105 surveys were returned, representing a 30 percent response rate. Of the 105 responses, 26 of these were sent electronically. INSURANCE, PENSION, AND OTHER BENEFITS....................................................................................................................6 (Note that two of these were disregarded since the company had also responded on the paper form.) Survey Prepared and Analyzed Employee Insurance Summaries...........................................................................................................................6 CRI also requested that the company respond with the number of full-time equivalent employees as well as their by the Community Research Institute at IPFW product or service description, or NAICS codes. This was done so that the results could be analyzed by these Dependent Insurance Summaries.........................................................................................................................8 additional characteristics if sufficient responses warranted. The results of these subsets are enclosed as an Separate Prescription Drug Plan.........................................................................................................................10 appendix to this report. Pension/Savings..................................................................................................................................................10 There was an attempt to be concise, yet not to overwhelm survey participants with a myriad of benefit options. In for some situations, the company responded that a different set of benefits were offered to different classifications of Other Employee Benefits.....................................................................................................................................10 employees. In summarizing these responses, there was an attempt to identify the fringe benefits offered to the The Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance majority of employees. TOTAL BENEFIT COST..................................................................................................................................................11 A copy of the survey is included as Appendix B. UNIONIZATION..........................................................................................................................................................11 The wage section of this report is not based on our survey, but is from a joint program sponsored by the Indiana SEASONAL HIRING PATTERNS.......................................................................................................................................12 Department of Workforce Development and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. More information is given in Part II-The Occupational Wage Report for Allen County. WAGE LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS........................................................................................................................................12 OTHER PAY PROGRAMS..............................................................................................................................................13 RESPONSES TO OPEN-ENDED PERSONNEL QUESTIONS......................................................................................................13 PART II – 2007 MEAN SALARIES FOR ALLEN COUNTY..........................................................................................16 APPENDIX A: ALLEN COUNTY 2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY BY SIZE OF COMPANY............................................39 APPENDIX B: 2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY......................................................................................................50 PART 1 – OVERALL ANALYSIS VACATIONS, LEAVE, AND HOLIDAYS Survey responses dealing with the various types of leave given to employees are summarized in Table 1-1. Since many companies are now offering a bank of combined vacation and sick days which are commonly termed “paid time off” (PTO), we have identified a PTO response as an affirmative response for both vacation and to sick leave. For informational purposes, the responses to the options “vacation”, sick leave, and “paid time off” are listed in Table 1-1a. Table 1-1 NUMBER PERCENTAGE TYPE OF TIME OFF RESPONDIN ANSWERING “YES” G “YES” TO TOTAL RESPONSES Vacation or vacation as PTO 101 98.1% Paid Holidays 101 98.1% Paid Funeral leave 81 78.6% Paid Sick Leave or sick leave as PTO 72 71.8% Paid Jury Duty 65 63.1% Holiday premium pay 34 33.0% Time off as a witness 21 20.4% Pay in lieu of vacation or PTO 13 12.6% Unpaid Holidays 5 4.9% This was the first time that Paid Time Off was included in our survey, and the breakdown of those offering a separate or distinct vacation or sick leave policy and those offering PTO are shown in the table below. Table 1-1a VACATION OR PTO? Response = “yes” Paid Time Off? (combination vacation/sick days) 50 (including 26 that had qualifications) Vacation as a separate benefit 51 Sick Leave as a separate benefit 24 As could be expected, the number or days of PTO is often tied to the number of years of service. The range was from “1-5 days” to “8-24”, “10-25”, “23-25” “25+”, and “15-30”, and everything in-between. The median was 15 days, and the high allowance was “25+” or in the 25-30 range. VACATION OR VACATION INCLUDED AS PART OF PTO Ninety-eight percent (98.1%) of the companies surveyed stated they offer paid vacation days. Table 1-2 shows the reported average days paid, along with the ranges. In our last survey (2005), 98.5 percent of the respondents indicated they offered paid vacations. While we are including PTO as an affirmative response to vacation, we are not factoring in the number of days given per year since PTO also includes sick leave. PTO days are identified in more detail above. Table 1-2 Vacation Days Paid by Employers Vacation Days Paid Range for Years of Service Average Median Low High One Year of Service 7.4 5 0 19 Five Years of Service 13.1 15 10 26 Ten Years of Service 16.8 15 10 26 The number of vacation days is often determined by years of service or whether the employee is hourly or salaried. The chart below illustrates that the majority of those with one year of service receive between 1-5 days; while over 60 percent of those with 10 years receive 11 to 19 days. PAID HOLIDAYS Ninety-eight percent (98.1%) of the companies surveyed provided paid holidays, and this is also consistent with the 2005 survey in which 97 percent offered paid holidays. The distribution of responses is shown in the chart below.
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