• Employer social insurance costs as a percent of hourly compensation costs were similar for the United States and the EU-15 as a whole, but U.S. costs were higher than in all of the non-European countries.
• In Europe, social insurance costs as a percent of total hourly compensation costs ranged widely: France and Italy had higher costs than the United States, while Denmark and Ireland had much lower costs.

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NOTE: Hong Kong SAR stands for Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics.