Last year, 26 percent of the average company's net earnings went for medical costs, a survey shows.

The proposed rate reduction in the general corporate income tax would save an average company $200 a year, city officials said.

Various surveys show that the average company pays each outside director about $33,000 a year.

Over the last year, the earnings of the average company in the group grew by more than 50 percent.

"In 1992, the average didn't tell what the average company was doing."

Last year, medical costs swallowed up 26 percent of the average company's earnings.

The average company in the Hewitt study had 17,000 employees and annual sales of $2.7 billion.

The average company in the industry trades with a price/sales ratio of 3.45.

During the 1990's, the average company paid 34.5 percent of its income in tax.

The average company planned to reduce employment by almost 2 percent.