Employees
Forty-six percent of employees at design-only companies polled received a raise in 2006, and 46% of the remaining employees received one in 2005; average raise received was $3,515.
Employees surveyed reported an average of just seven vacation days, three sick days, and four paid holidays.
Seventy-seven percent of employees at design-only firms (virtually the same percentage as managers) have a medical plan. In single coverage, costs are split 63% employer, 37% employee; for family plans the split is 38% employer and 62% to the manager.
Just 3% of employees have a company car. But 36% have a flex-time agreement with their employer.
Seventy-three percent of employees surveyed had a college diploma or graduate education. They have been in the kitchen and bath industry an average of nine years, and work for a company that has been in business an average of 18 years.