Figure 1: Plans offering automatic increases.
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All plans:
Ambulatory health care services: 44% of plans with fewer than 250 participants offered automatic increases; 75% of plans with 250 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Architecture and engineering: 89% of plans with fewer than 500 participants offered automatic increases; 72% of plans with 500 or more participants offer automatic increases.
Construction: 78% of plans with fewer than 500 participants offered automatic increases; 62% of plans with 500 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Finance: 52% of plans with fewer than 500 participants offered automatic increases; 72% of plans with 500 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Information: 54% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 75% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Insurance: 61% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 83% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Legal services: 55% of plans with fewer than 250 participants offered automatic increases; 67% of plans with 250 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Manufacturing: 67% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 77% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction: 71% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 40% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Professional, scientific, and technical services: 65% of plans with fewer than 500 participants offered automatic increases; 68% of plans with 500 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Retail trade: 100% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 100% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Technology: 69% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 68% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Transportation and warehousing: 91% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 60% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Unions: 67% of plans with fewer than 500 participants offered automatic increases; 68% of plans with 500 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Utilities: 70% of plans with fewer than 1,000 participants offered automatic increases; 45% of plans with 1,000 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Wholesale trade: 58% of plans with fewer than 500 participants offered automatic increases; 80% of plans with 500 or more participants offered automatic increases.
Vanguard benchmark: 69% of all plans offered automatic increases.