2024-26207. Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

Exhibit 1—Estimated Annualized Burden Hours for the 2025-2027 MEPS-IC

Form name	Number of respondents	Number of responses per respondent	Minutes per response	Total burden hours
Prescreener Questionnaire	18,900	1	5	1,575
Establishment Questionnaire	21,900	1	20	7,300
Plan Questionnaire	18,900	2.3	11	7,970
Total	59,700	n/a	n/a	16,845
* The burden estimate printed on the establishment questionnaire is 45 minutes, which includes the burden estimate for completing the establishment questionnaire and two plan questionnaires (on average, each establishment completes 2.3 plan questionnaires). The establishment and plan questionnaires are sent to the respondent as a package and are completed by the respondent at the same time.

Exhibit 2 shows the estimated annualized cost burden associated with the respondents' time to participate in this data collection. The annualized cost burden is estimated to be $652,893. ( print page 89645)

Exhibit 2—Estimated Annualized Cost Burden for the 2025-2027 MEPS-IC

Form name	Number of respondents	Total burden hours	Average hourly wage rate *	Total cost burden
Prescreener Questionnaire	18,900	1,575	38.76	$61,047
Establishment Questionnaire	21,900	7,300	38.76	282,948
Plan Questionnaire	18,900	7,970	38.76	308,898
Total	59,700	16,845	n/a	652,893
* Based upon the mean hourly wage for Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists occupation code 13-1141, at https://www.bls.gov/​oes/​current/​oes131141.htm (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.)