2023 Employee Benefits in the United States — 2023-09-21

Retirement benefits were available to 94 percent of private industry union workers and 68 percent of private industry nonunion workers in March 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Sixty-six percent of private industry union workers had access to defined benefit plans and 63 percent had access to defined contribution plans. Ten percent of private industry nonunion workers had access to defined benefit plans and 68 percent had access to defined contribution plans. (See table 1.) Among private industry workers, paid sick leave was available to 86 percent of union workers and 77 percent of nonunion workers while paid family leave was available to 23 percent of union workers and 27 percent of nonunion workers. Ninety-two percent of union workers had access to paid holidays and 56 percent had access to paid personal leave, while 79 percent of nonunion workers had access to paid holidays and 45 percent had access to paid personal leave.