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Pension Plan Participation

Significant changes have occurred in the kind of employment-based retirement plan in which private-sector workers participate.

25. august 2014

When you look at all workers in the private sector, not just those offered a retirement plan at work, in 1979, fewer than 1 in 3 private-sector wage and salary workers participated only in a defined benefit (DB) pension plan, while another 10 percent participated in both a DB plan and a defined contribution (DC) plan.

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