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# Access, participation, and take-up rates for retirement benefits

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) corrected the 2017 National Compensation Survey - Benefits participation and take-up rate estimates for retirement benefits on the public database on October 18, 2018 and 2013-2016 estimates on December 11, 2018.

#### Civilian workers, private industry workers, state and local government workers

                - Access rates for retirement benefits
                - Access rates for defined benefit plans
                - Access rates for defined contribution plans
                - Participation rates for retirement benefits
                - Participation rates for defined benefit plans
                - Participation rates for defined contribution plans
                - Take-up rates for retirement benefits
                - Take-up rates for defined benefit plans
                - Take-up rates for defined contribution plans.

The following publications contain estimates of participation and take-up rates for retirement benefits for the reference periods affected. Impacted news releases, bulletins, and articles will not be republished to reflect these corrections. The corrected data are available through the public database query tools and correction spreadsheet.

#### Employee Benefits in the United States: News Releases

                - 2017 ( HTML ) ( PDF )
                - 2016 ( HTML ) ( PDF )
                - 2015 ( HTML ) ( PDF )
                - 2014 ( HTML ) ( PDF )
                - 2013 ( HTML ) ( PDF )

#### Employee Benefits in the United States: Bulletins

                - 2017 /   2016  /  2015  /  2014  /  2013

#### Monthly Labor Review

                - The relationship between access to benefits and weekly work hours

#### The Economics Daily

                - The benefits of working for a small business
                - Lump sums are most common payment option for participants in defined contribution retirement plans
                - Higher paid workers more likely to have access to retirement benefits than lower paid workers
                - Three quarters of state and local government workers were in defined benefit pension plans in 2016
                - 74 percent of defined contribution plan participants had savings and thrift plans in 2015
                - 25 percent of private industry workers have no access to medical care or retirement benefits 
                - Access to retirement and medical benefits by occupation, March 2015
                - Retirement benefits most prevalent in Midwest
                - Part-time private industry workers less likely to have access to benefits in 2013
                - Access to employee benefits in March 2013

#### Beyond the Numbers      

                - How pay and benefits change as job level rises: data from the National Compensation Survey
                - State and local government workers preparing for retirement: Do you understand your plan formula?
                - Defined contribution retirement plans: Who has them and what do they cost?
                - Access to specific provisions of employer-provided benefits: new estimates
                - Employer-sponsored benefits extended to domestic partners

This page will be updated periodically as the evaluation of the errors progresses.

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