Latest results published 14 May 2025
The key points from the ASHE Pensions Results show that:
- Almost three quarters (73%) of employees in Northern Ireland belonged to a workplace pension scheme in April 2024, a slight decrease of 1.7% from the previous year.
- Occupational Defined Benefit pension has been the most common form of workplace pension for more than a decade, and remained in and around a third over that period. Occupational Defined Contribution has increased sixfold since 2011, from 4% to 25%, making it the second most common pension for the last ten years.
- Employees in the 40-49 age group had the highest pension uptake at 82%, closely followed by those aged 50-59 (81%).
- More than nine out of ten public sector employees (90%) and around two out of three (63%) private sector employees were members of a workplace pension scheme in 2024. This is an increase of 13 percentage points (pps) for public sector employees and 41pps for private sector employees since the introduction of automatic enrolment in 2012.
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