Employee Benefits Survey
Other Fringe Benefits
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Frequency of other fringe benefits: full-time workers
Non-production bonuses such as hiring bonuses are the most common type of fringe benefit offered to full-time workers in Minnesota followed by tuition assistance, flexible medical spending accounts, and flexible child care spending accounts. (See Table 24) Manufacturing sector employers have among the highest offer rates in almost all categories of fringe benefits for full-time workers. Almost half of employers in that sector offer a non-production bonus, and about a third offer a flexible medical spending account.
Tuition assistance is most prevalent in the financial activities sector, and professional and business services employers are most likely to offer child care benefits other than flexible child care spending accounts. Hiring bonuses offered by temporary placement agencies are apt to be included in the fairly high rate of non-production bonuses in the professional and business services sector. Size class appears to be correlated with the provision of fringe benefits, as the share of firms offering each benefit steadily increases with each size class.
Table 24 Percent of firms offering other fringe benefits
Frequency of other fringe benefits: part-time workers
Non-production bonuses such as hiring bonuses are the most common type of fringe benefit offered to part-time workers followed by tuition assistance, flexible child care spending accounts, and flexible medical spending accounts. Education and health services sector employers have among the highest offer rates in almost all categories of fringe benefits for part-time workers. A third of employers in that sector offer tuition assistance and 27 percent offer non-production bonuses. Professional and business services sector employers are most likely to offer child care benefits other than flexible child care spending accounts to part-time workers.
Firm size again shows strong correlation with the percent of firms offering fringe benefits; the share of firms offering each benefit steadily increasing with each size class. Flexible spending accounts for medical and child care expenses are offered to part-time workers in more than half of the very large firms.
Table 24 Percent of firms offering other fringe benefits