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Retirement benefits: Access, participation, and take-up rates by bargaining status

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Retirement benefits: Access, participation, and take-up rates by bargaining status, March 2023
Bargaining status Defined benefit access Defined benefit participation Defined benefit take-up rate Defined contribution access Defined contribution participation Defined contribution take-up rate

Private industry: union

66% 58% 88% 63% 53% 84%

Private industry: nonunion

10% 7% 65% 68% 49% 72%

State and local government: union

95% 82% 86% 37% 15% 40%

State and local government: nonunion

78% 69% 88% 40% 22% 55%