The 2025 Benefits Benchmarks Report offers comprehensive, data-driven insights into medical, pharmacy, dental and voluntary benefits, as well as absence management strategies.

This report uses data from Gallagher's nationwide Benefits Strategy and Benchmarking Survey to help organizations plan for future success:

  • It's based on survey data from 450+ organizations gathered between February and April 2025.
  • It covers crucial topics such as managing rising healthcare and prescription drug costs, customizing voluntary benefits to meet diverse workforce needs and implementing proactive absence management policies.

Use this report to optimize your people strategies, maximize investments, mitigate risks and make strategic decisions to support the health and wellbeing of your employees and their families.

5 trends to watch in employee benefits

Proactive Absence Prevention

Specialty drug cost pressures

HSA gaining popularity

Cost share sustainability

Increasing employee wellbeing

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Making tough benefits and HR decisions? This report can help.

When it comes to attracting and retaining talent without compromising the bottom line, business leaders are saddled with difficult choices, including:

  • Designing comprehensive benefits strategies for all generations in the workforce to ensure all employees feel supported
  • Managing the use and cost of specialty drugs
  • Using total rewards to improve attraction and retention efforts

In this report: See how 450+ organizations are navigating these decisions so their people and businesses can thrive.

Employers like you helped drive this report

Data was collected from:

450+ employers; 74% for-profits; 26% nonprofits; 19+ industries