The Employee Benefits Benchmarks Industry Standard
The industry's leading benefit plan design data asset, built so employers can make smarter plan decisions: attract the talent they want, keep the people they have, and control what it costs.
450+ benefit variables33 industries50 states7 size groups
Where the data comes from
Detailed benefit plan design benchmarks, statistically significant at a state, industry, and size level
Survey data asks employers what they think they offer. Mployer's benchmarks are built from actual plan documents contributed by our network of employers, brokers, and carriers, then normalized so any two plans can be compared line by line. That is the difference between a rough market read and a true peer cohort.
75K+
Plans covering over 10 million Americans
Employer locations benchmarked across the last twelve months.
12
Independent data sources
Employer surveys, broker partners, carrier submitted data, and public filings, reconciled into one benchmark.
9
Regions, 50 states, 7 size bands
Each industry page reports the all region, all size average unless it says otherwise.
Quarterly
Refresh cadence
Benchmarks are rebuilt every quarter as new plan data lands in the network.
What every industry page covers
Medical
12 tracked rows
Plan type mix, deductibles, out of pocket maximums, premium share, funding type, HSA and HRA, copays, coinsurance, and utilization.
Ancillary
10 tracked rows
Dental, vision, basic and voluntary life, short and long term disability, employee assistance, and supplemental coverage.
Leave
8 tracked rows
Vacation and consolidated PTO accrual, holidays, sick leave, parental and family leave, funeral, jury duty, and military.
Retirement
8 tracked rows
Defined contribution and defined benefit availability, employer match, vesting, auto enrollment and escalation, loans, and eligibility.
Employers offering great benefits now have a chance to brag. And love it.
When your plan rates among the best of its true peers, you become eligible for Mployer's benefit awards, independent third-party recognition you can put to work in recruiting and retention.
Awarded by benefit-rating tier, using the same true-peer data
A shareable badge for your careers page, job posts, and offers
A reason for candidates to choose you over a competing offer
Employers love sharing it
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Evaluate other parts of the industry and sector
Industry is one cut of the data. Geography, leave policy, and the local broker market are the others.
About this hub. Mployer is an independent employee benefits benchmarking platform. The 33 industry benchmarks catalogued here are drawn from Mployer's Employee Benefit Plan Design Study, built on 200,000+ medical plans contributed each year across 75,000+ employer locations benchmarked in the last twelve months and refreshed quarterly, supplemented by Bureau of Labor Statistics Employee Benefits Survey data where noted on the individual pages. Figures are all region, all size averages unless a page states otherwise, and percentages are rounded to the nearest whole point. Read the full benchmarking methodology.
Cite as: Mployer Advisor, industry benefits benchmark index, 2026.
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