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Benefit participation rate

The percentage of workers participating in a stated employer-sponsored benefit, pinned to eligibility, contribution, cohort, denominator, period, and survey methodology.

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Sources that carry it

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Employee Benefits in the United States — Incidence and Key Provisions

Recurring National Compensation Survey publication and coordinated database series providing annual U.S. estimates of employer-sponsored benefit incidence and key provisions. Outputs include access, participation and take-up rates; percentages of establishments offering benefits; medical-premium shares and average monthly premium amounts; standard errors; and worker/establishment cohort dimensions by ownership, industry, occupation, work and bargaining status, wage category, establishment size, and Census region/division. The current release is March 2025, published September 25, 2025. Preserve provision, datatype, denominator, footnotes, standard errors, reference year, ownership, cohort, and classification context; dashes and suppression markers are not zero. State estimates are not produced.

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