Table 2.
Paid leave policy characteristics in 2018 post-PPLO, by location (N = 297).
| Characteristics | Proportion of Employers (N, weighted %) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF | Non-SF | Cluster p-value | |||
| Offered paid parental1 leave to any employees | ** | ||||
| Yes | 108 | 79.1% | 76 | 47.5% | |
| No | 29 | 20.9% | 84 | 52.5% | |
| Among employers that offered paid parental leave | |||||
| Policy includes fathers | + | ||||
| Yes | 92 | 94.9% | 50 | 86.9% | |
| No | 5 | 5.1% | 7 | 13.1% | |
| Policy includes all job titles | + | ||||
| Yes | 86 | 86.2% | 47 | 80.8% | |
| No | 12 | 13.8% | 10 | 19.2% | |
| Duration of paid leave offered to mothers | |||||
| Equal to paid leave time accrued | 12 | 14.2% | 11 | 24.3% | |
| <6 weeks | 9 | 10.2% | 10 | 22.5% | + |
| 6–11 weeks | 49 | 50.7% | 15 | 27.0% | + |
| 12+ weeks | 25 | 24.9% | 15 | 26.2% | |
| Duration of paid leave offered to fathers | |||||
| Equal to paid leave time accrued | 8 | 9.4% | 10 | 22.2% | |
| <6 weeks | 17 | 18.9% | 12 | 25.3% | |
| 6–11 weeks | 54 | 55.8% | 16 | 30.1% | + |
| 12+ weeks | 15 | 15.9% | 12 | 22.4% | + |
| Wage replacement rate - mothers2 | |||||
| None | 5 | 6.1% | 3 | 6.6% | |
| 1–29% | 1 | 1.0% | 1 | 2.8% | |
| 30–99% | 52 | 54.5% | 20 | 39.4% | |
| 100% | 33 | 34.9% | 20 | 46.4% | |
| DK/not sure | 3 | 3.5% | 3 | 4.8% | |
| Wage replacement rate - fathers | |||||
| None | 5 | 6.1% | 6 | 13.0% | |
| 1–29% | 1 | 1.0% | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 30–99% | 52 | 55.1% | 17 | 35.9% | + |
| 100% | 32 | 34.2% | 19 | 43.3% | |
| DK/not sure | 3 | 3.5% | 3 | 4.9% | |
| Duration of unpaid leave offered to mothers | |||||
| <12 weeks | 21 | 23.6% | 13 | 24.2% | |
| 12 weeks | 32 | 33.0% | 17 | 33.9% | |
| >12 weeks | 23 | 25.2% | 11 | 18.4% | |
| unlimited | 16 | 18.2% | 10 | 23.5% | |
| Duration of unpaid leave offered to fathers | |||||
| <12 weeks | 28 | 31.5% | 15 | 27.8% | |
| 12 weeks | 38 | 37.2% | 17 | 34.5% | |
| >12 weeks | 11 | 13.3% | 7 | 12.9% | |
| unlimited | 16 | 18.0% | 10 | 24.8% | |
+p<0.1; *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.
Source: Bay Area Parental Leave Survey of 2018 Employers.
Notes: SF=San Francisco; DK = don't know. 1Parental leave includes employer-provided parental or family leave and can be fully or partially paid. This is distinct from other types of paid leave, such as vacation, sick, or flexible paid time off. 2These cut-offs are based on the statewide PFL replacement rate of 60-70% of wages, depending on income, which leaves employers responsible for 30–40%. Firms that provide <30% wage replacement are not in compliance with the PPLO. P-values from weighted logit models using wild cluster bootstrapping to account for county-level clustering.