2024 Employee Benefits in the United States — 2024-09-19

Medical care benefits were available to 72 percent of private industry workers and 89 percent of state and local government workers in March 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty- three percent of private industry workers had access to dental benefits and 60 percent of state and local government workers had access. Twenty-eight percent of private industry workers had access to vision benefits while 39 percent of state and local government workers had access. (See table 2.) For private industry workers participating in medical plans with single coverage, the employer share of premiums was 80 percent and the employee share was 20 percent. State and local government workers participating in medical plans with single coverage saw 86 percent of premiums covered by employers and 14 percent by employees. For family coverage, employers paid 68 percent of premiums for private industry workers and 71 percent for state and local government workers.