Just a little over half of U.S. civilian workers participate in employer-sponsored retirement plans, including both defined benefit and defined contribution plans — but state and local government workers had a far better participation rate than private industry workers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a report based on the National Compensation Survey for March of 2016 that the participation rate for civilian workers in employer-sponsored retirement plans was 54 percent.
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