More employers reported providing medical and dental benefits to their full-time employees, ending a decline that began in 2005 and returning the state estimates to pre-recession levels.
There's plenty to look at in the 49-page report, which can be viewed at http://lmi.idaho.gov/ResearchProjects.aspx
Here are some key points from the executive summary:
- Employers indicated they were more likely to offer full‐time employees fringe benefits compared with part‐time employees.
- Bigger companies offer better and more extensive benefit packages.
- Industry sectors requiring more experience and education continued to offer more benefits than their counterparts in natural resources and mining, leisure and hospitality.
- Region continued to be a non-factor in determining whether a firm offered any form of fringe benefits to employees.
