Human Resource Executive

Numbers By The
Figures pertaining to employers and the workplace
COMPILED BY HRE STAFF

$1.3 trillion

Amount of student-loan debt in 2016, which
is double what it was eight years earlier.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

$215 billion
Amount that was spent in 2016 to
compensate federal civilian employees.

(About two-thirds of that total was
spent on civilian personnel working in
the Department of Defense, the Department
of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Homeland
Security.)

Congressional Budget Office report titled “Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private Sector Employees, 2011 to 2015.”

74%
Percentage of 665 employers that say their organization
employs “talent hoarders”—managers who refuse to
promote or transfer their best workers to keep from losing
them.

Institute for Corporate Productivity

40

Number of nations that already have a national paid parental leave policy similar to one proposed in the Trump administration’s 2017-18 budget.

Pew Research Center

46%
Share of U.S. households in which both parents work full
time.

Pew Research Center

3
Number of states that provide state-paid maternity leave.
(They are California, Rhode Island and New Jersey.)

U.S. Department of Labor

4.1

Average number of weeks of paid leave available to new parents by U.S. employers that offer the benefit to their workers. (Eighty percent of employers offering the benefit pay eligible employees their full wages during the entire paid parental leave.)

Worldat Work and Mercer

63%

Percentage of employers that say their HR and IT departments are collaborating on information-security policies.

Littler Mendelson

$66,097
Overall average salary
projection for 2017
engineering graduates.

(The pay is expected to be the highest of all graduates and represents a 2-percent increase from a year earlier.)

The National Association of Colleges and Employers

14
Average number of hours that HR managers say they lose
each week by manually completing tasks that could be
automated.

CareerBuilder Inc.

34%
Percentage of employees who report having disability
coverage through their employer.

Harris Poll on behalf of OneAmerica

$106,910
Median annual salary for HR managers in 2016. (This
translates to around $51.40 per hour.)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

38%
Percentage of U.S.-based jobs that are at
high risk of being replaced by robots
and artificial intelligence in the
next 15 years.

PwC

74%
Percentage of recent college grads who turned down a job
opportunity because of the delay at which they received
the offer.

Yello

73%

Non-executive women who aspire to be an executive at some point in their career, a figure that’s comparable to men—76 percent. (Currently, only 32 percent of high-level or C-suite leaders are women.)