Stretching (body piercing) Stretching, in the context of body piercing, is the deliberate expansion of a healed piercing for the purpose of wearing certain types of jewelry. Ear piercings are the most commonly stretched piercings, with nasal septum piercings, tongue piercings and lip piercings/lip plates following close behind.
Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $34.90 per hour worked in December 2016, the. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $23.87 per hour worked. and accounted for 68.4 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $11.03 and accounted for the. remaining 31.6 percent. Total employer compensation costs for private industry workers averaged. $32.76 per hour worked in December 2016.
The total cost per employee per hour in the Midwest was $27.93, and $8.52, or 30.5 percent, of that was benefits. The total cost per employee per hour in the South was $26.64, and $7.55, or 28.4 percent, of that was benefits.ccording to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the average cost of employee benefits to employers was relatively steady at 27 to 29 percent of the total compensation cost throughout the 1990s but began to increase at the turn of the century as health insurance costs began rising rapidly.