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Access to retirement and medical benefits by occupation, March 2015
July 28, 2015
Retirement benefits were available to 66 percent of private industry workers in the United States in March 2015. Access to benefits differed among some occupational groups. Among workers in management, professional, and related occupations in private industry, 80 percent had access to retirement benefits—compared with 39 percent in service occupations.
Retirement benefits: access, participation, and take-up rates, by private industry occupation, March 2015
Occupation
Access
Participation
Take-up rate
All workers
66%
49%
74%
Management, professional, and related
80
67
84
Production, transportation, and material moving
71
53
75
Sales and office
70
49
70
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance
66
52
80
Service
39
22
55
Medical care benefits were available to 69 percent of private industry workers in March 2015. Within private industry, 87 percent of workers in management, professional, and related occupations had access to medical care, compared with 41 percent in service occupations.
Medical care benefits: access, participation, and take-up rates, by private industry occupation, March 2015
Occupation
Access
Participation
Take-up rate
All workers
69%
50%
72%
Management, professional, and related
87
66
76
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance
76
60
79
Production, transportation, and material moving
76
56
73
Sales and office
69
49
71
Service
41
24
60
These data are from the National Compensation Survey — Benefits program. To learn more, see "Employee Benefits in the United States — March 2015" (HTML) (PDF). Take-up rates are the percentage of workers with access to a plan who participate in the plan.
United States Department of Labor
