Average compensation in the West: $29.95 per hour
by Amy Gillentine Published: June 13,2011
Nationally, employee costs among private industry employers in the United States averaged $28.10 an hour in 2009– with 70 percent of those costs coming from actual wages and nearly 30 percent for benefits, according to newly released information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the West, wages and salaries averaged $21.28 and accounted [...] [...]








