Table of Contents
        INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................................................1
        PART 1 – OVERALL ANALYSIS...............................................................................................................................2
          VACATIONS, LEAVE, AND HOLIDAYS.................................................................................................................................2
                   ALLEN COUNTY 2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY
           Vacation or Vacation included as part of PTO.......................................................................................................2
                       AND OCCUPATIONAL WAGE DATA
           Paid Holidays.........................................................................................................................................................3
                          ALLEN COUNTY 
           Paid Funeral Leave................................................................................................................................................4
        INTRODUCTION 
           Paid Sick Leave or Sick Leave included in PTO.......................................................................................................4
                    2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY 
        Approximately 340 employers were contacted in November 2008 by the Community Research Institute (CRI) on 
           Paid Jury Duty.......................................................................................................................................................4
        behalf of the Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance and asked to complete an employee fringe 
                   AND OCCUPATIONAL WAGE DATA
        benefit survey.  This was not a random survey; employers that were recognized as major employers in Allen County,
           Holiday Premium Pay............................................................................................................................................5
        both public and private, were contacted in addition to a number of companies that were new to the county or had 
        an expansion announced in 2008.  A printed survey was enclosed as well as instructions offering the company the 
           Other Leaves:........................................................................................................................................................5
                                  
        option of responding electronically.  A follow-up post card was sent to in December.  A total of 105 surveys were 
        returned, representing a 30 percent response rate. Of the 105 responses, 26 of these were sent electronically. 
          INSURANCE, PENSION, AND OTHER BENEFITS....................................................................................................................6
        (Note that two of these were disregarded since the company had also responded on the paper form.)
                        Survey Prepared and Analyzed
           Employee Insurance Summaries...........................................................................................................................6
        CRI also requested that the company respond with the number of full-time equivalent employees as well as their 
                   by the Community Research Institute at IPFW
        product or service description, or NAICS codes.  This was done so that the results could be analyzed by these 
           Dependent Insurance Summaries.........................................................................................................................8
        additional characteristics if sufficient responses warranted.  The results of these subsets are enclosed as an 
                                  
           Separate Prescription Drug Plan.........................................................................................................................10
        appendix to this report.
           Pension/Savings..................................................................................................................................................10
        There was an attempt to be concise, yet not to overwhelm survey participants with a myriad of benefit options.  In 
                                 for
        some situations, the company responded that a different set of benefits were offered to different classifications of 
           Other Employee Benefits.....................................................................................................................................10
        employees.  In summarizing these responses, there was an attempt to identify the fringe benefits offered to the 
              The Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance
        majority of employees.   
          TOTAL BENEFIT COST..................................................................................................................................................11
        A copy of the survey is included as Appendix B.
          UNIONIZATION..........................................................................................................................................................11
        The wage section of this report is not based on our survey, but is from a joint program sponsored by the Indiana 
          SEASONAL HIRING PATTERNS.......................................................................................................................................12
        Department of Workforce Development and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.   More information is given in 
        Part II-The Occupational Wage Report for Allen County.
          WAGE LEVEL ADJUSTMENTS........................................................................................................................................12
          OTHER PAY PROGRAMS..............................................................................................................................................13
          RESPONSES TO OPEN-ENDED PERSONNEL QUESTIONS......................................................................................................13
        PART II – 2007 MEAN SALARIES FOR ALLEN COUNTY..........................................................................................16
        APPENDIX A: ALLEN COUNTY 2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY BY SIZE OF COMPANY............................................39
        APPENDIX B: 2008 FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEY......................................................................................................50
         
                PART 1 – OVERALL ANALYSIS
                VACATIONS, LEAVE, AND HOLIDAYS
                Survey responses dealing with the various types of leave given to employees are summarized in Table 1-1.  Since 
                many companies are now offering a bank of combined vacation and sick days which are commonly termed “paid 
                time off” (PTO), we have identified a PTO response as an affirmative response for both vacation and to sick leave.  
                For informational purposes, the responses to the options “vacation”, sick leave, and “paid time off” are listed in 
                Table 1-1a.  
                                                              Table 1-1
                                                                      NUMBER         PERCENTAGE
                                         TYPE OF TIME OFF            RESPONDIN     ANSWERING “YES”
                                                                       G “YES”         TO TOTAL
                                                                                      RESPONSES
                                Vacation or vacation as PTO              101            98.1%
                                Paid Holidays                            101            98.1%
                                Paid Funeral leave                       81             78.6%
                                Paid Sick Leave or sick leave as PTO     72             71.8%
                                Paid Jury Duty                           65             63.1%
                                Holiday premium pay                      34             33.0%
                                Time off as a witness                    21             20.4%
                                Pay in lieu of vacation or PTO           13             12.6%
                                Unpaid Holidays                           5              4.9%
                This was the first time that Paid Time Off was included in our survey, and the breakdown of those offering a 
                separate or distinct vacation or sick leave policy and those offering PTO are shown in the table below.
                                                             Table 1-1a
                              VACATION OR PTO?                                      Response = “yes”
                              Paid Time Off?  (combination vacation/sick days)            50
                              (including 26 that had qualifications)
                              Vacation as a separate benefit                              51
                              Sick Leave as a separate benefit                            24
                As could be expected, the number or days of PTO is often tied to the number of years of service.  The range was 
                from “1-5 days” to “8-24”, “10-25”, “23-25” “25+”, and “15-30”, and everything in-between.  The median was 15 
                days, and the high allowance was “25+” or in the 25-30 range.
                VACATION OR VACATION INCLUDED AS PART OF PTO
                Ninety-eight percent (98.1%) of the companies surveyed stated they offer paid vacation days.  Table 1-2 shows the
                reported average days paid, along with the ranges. In our last survey (2005), 98.5 percent of the respondents
                indicated they offered paid vacations.  While we are including PTO as an affirmative response to vacation, we are
                not factoring in the number of days given per year since PTO also includes sick leave.  PTO days are identified in
                more detail above.
                                                              Table 1-2
                 
                                                             Vacation Days Paid by Employers
                                       Vacation Days Paid                               Range
                                       for Years of Service      Average        Median           Low           High
                                      One Year of Service           7.4            5              0             19
                                      Five Years of Service        13.1            15            10             26
                                      Ten Years of Service         16.8            15            10             26
                   The number of vacation days is often determined by years of service or whether the employee is hourly or salaried.
                   The chart below illustrates that the majority of those with one year of service receive between 1-5 days; while over
                   60 percent of those with 10 years receive 11 to 19 days.
                   PAID HOLIDAYS
                   Ninety-eight percent (98.1%) of the companies surveyed provided paid holidays, and this is also consistent with the
                   2005 survey in which 97 percent offered paid holidays. The distribution of responses is shown in the chart below.