benefits (59%).
Other Key U.S. Benefits Findings
- More than half of corporations (58%) and professional service firms (54%) offer at least ten paid holidays per year. A majority of public sector employers (53%) offer 12 or more days.
- Slightly more than half, 57%, of corporations and 55% of public employers offer some form of adoption benefits to their employees. Public sector employees are the most likely to offer paid leave as an adoption benefit.
- Public employers are the most likely to offer flexible work hours at 55%. They are followed by professional service firms (54%) and corporations (47%).
- Over half of corporations, 63%, provide special perks to executives; most popular are a company car or allowance, supplemental executive retirement plans/nonqualified deferred compensation plans, equity compensation and executive physical examinations.
Employee Benefits Survey: U.S. and Canada: 2009 (Item #6542) is published by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. It contains 157 pages and costs $132 (I.F. Members $99). To order visit
www.ifebp.org/books.asp?6542 or contact the Foundation Bookstore at bookstore@ifebp.org or (888) 334-3327, option 4.
The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to being a leading objective and independent global source of employee benefits, compensation, and financial literacy education and information.
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