Attachment 8 -Wage Rates

Table x: Manufacturing Industry Wage Rates (2020$)

Labor
Category

Data
Series a

BLS ECEC,
Private
Manufacturin
Managerial g industries,
“Mgt,
Business, and
Financial”
BLS ECEC,
Private
Professional Manufacturin
/ Technical g industries,
“Professional
and related“
BLS ECEC,
Private
Manufacturin
g industries,
Clerical
“Office and
Administrativ
e Support”

Overhead
% of
Total
Total
Compensa
Overhead
Compensa
tion
tion b

Hourly
Loaded
Wages c

(c) = (a)+(b)

(d)

(e)=(c)*(d)

(f)=(c)+(e)

Wage

Fringe
Benefit

(a)

(b)

Dec-20

$54.32

$24.46

$78.78

20%

$15.76

$94.54

Dec-20

$44.63

$22.45

$67.08

20%

$13.42

$80.50

Dec-20

$20.86

$9.62

$30.48

20%

$6.10

$36.58

Date

Footnotes
a Source: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Supplementary Tables: December 2006 – December 2020 (U.S.
bBureau of Labor Statistics 2021)
An overhead rate of 20% is used based on assumptions in Handbook on Valuing Changes in Time Use Induced by

Regulatory Requirements and Other U S EPA Actions (EPA 2020)
c
Wage data are rounded to the closest cent in this analysis.