134 pages. Excerpt: Relative Importance of Various Employee Benefits[:] Employers believe health insurance is the most important benefit to employees, followed by employee-funded retirement plans, life insurance, and disability insurance. Long-term care insurance is less likely to be seen as important. Most benefits are more likely to be considered important to employees by large employers than by small employers. The exceptions are health insurance and company-funded pension plans which hold equal importance between large and small employers. Consistent with previous years, two-thirds of all employers believe pension plans are important to employees. ? However, since 2007 fewer large employers feel pension plans are important to their employees. Additionally, there is an increase in the percentage of large employers who are unsure of the importance of these plans.

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