Attachment A (2025 Industry Wage Rates)

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Industry Wage Rates (2025$)

Labor Category

Data Series

a

Wage

Fringe
Benefit

Total
Compensa
tion

(a)

(b)

(c) = (a)+(b)

(d)

(e)=(c)*(d)

(f)=(c)+(e)

Date

Overhead % of
Total
b
Compensation

Overhead

Hourly Loaded
c
Wages

Managerial

BLS ECEC, Private
Manufacturing industries, “Mgt,
Business, and Financial”

Dec-25

$60.36

$26.57

$86.93

20%

$17.39

$104.32

Professional / Technical

BLS ECEC, Private
Manufacturing industries,
“Professional and related“

Dec-25

$50.65

$23.11

$73.76

20%

$14.75

$88.51

Clerical

BLS ECEC, Private
Manufacturing industries,
“Office and Administrative
Support”

Dec-25

$26.44

$11.34

$37.78

20%

$7.56

$45.34

Footnotes
a

Source: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation. Table 4. Private industry workers by occupational and industry group. December 2024. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2024).

b

An overhead rate of 17% is used based on assumptions in Wage Rates for Economic Analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (Rice, 2002), and the Revised Economic
Analysis for the Amended Inventory Update Rule: Final Report (U.S. EPA, 2002).
c

The inflation factor of “1” in the formula for calculating the fringe + overhead factor means wage data are not escalated to reflect inflation.

d

Wage data are rounded to the closest cent in this analysis.