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 average annual cost of coverage for both employers and workers increased to $12,535 in 2014, compared with $11,938 last year, according to the survey of 595 large companies by Towers Watson, a benefits consultant, and the National Business Group on Health, a Washington-based employer alliance.