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Kiplinger
Kiplinger
Business
Stephen B. Dunbar III, JD, CLU

Are You Leaving Money on the Table? A Checklist for Evaluating Job Benefits

A colorful checklist with three yellow squares and a pink square outlined in black and a yellow checkmark in the pink square.

Most people ask one big question when evaluating a job offer: What's the salary?

While that single number tends to get all the attention, it only tells part of the story. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, benefits account for nearly 30% of private-sector employers' total compensation costs on average.

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