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.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employee benefits cost employers 30.9 percent of total employee compensation costs on average, as of March 2013. For private industry employers, the cost of benefits was 29.7 percent of total employee compensation.