IRS survey of benefits packages
Businesses invest colossal sums of money each year in a huge variety of employee benefits. A new survey by Industrial Relations Services, an employment research organisation, offers a fascinating insight into the range of benefits on offer amongst a sample of UK employers.
What you will find in this survey
Spread over two issues of the Pay and Benefits Bulletin, this 130-company survey includes a wealth of benchmarking information on the level of benefits and allowances in named organisations.
Besides offering a snapshot of the extent of provision among the survey sample, a series of tables provide details of:
Part 1 of the survey:
call-out arrangements (in 30 named organisations)
subsistence allowances (16)
paid adoptive leave (25)
deputising arrangements (20)
long-service awards (50)
Part 2 of the survey:
private medical insurance (in 35 named organisations)
permanent health insurance (25)
company car provision (20)
motor mileage allowance (55)
Extent of benefits provision
|
| Per cent of respondents |
| General allowances |
|
| 54% |
| 33% |
| 31% |
| 15% |
| 10% |
| 7% |
| 6% |
| Pensions |
|
| 62% |
| 12% |
| 12% |
| 12% |
| Non-holiday leave |
|
| 95% |
| 65% |
| 23% |
| Miscellaneous allowances |
|
| 58% |
| 51% |
| 36% |
| 32% |
| 29% |
| 5% |
| Health and related benefits |
|
| 78% |
| 63% |
| 38% |
Sample size: 130 organisations.
Source: Pay and Benefits Bulletin, Industrial Relations Services, May 2001.
Want to know more?
Title: Benefits and allowances , published in two parts in Pay and Benefits Bulletin 519 and 520.
Methodology: Postal questionnaire sent to 2,500 subscribers to IRS journals in February 2001.
Sample size: A total of 130 organisations responded to the survey with a combined workforce size of more than half a million workers.
Business sectors: Small, medium and large employers, drawn from a wide variety of industrial sectors.
Availability: Contact the IRS subscriptions department, tel: 020 7354 5858. For more information about the Pay and Benefits Bulletin visit http://www.irseclipse.co.uk/publications/pabb.html.