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- Latest results published 14th August 2024
- Three quarters (75%) of employees in Northern Ireland belonged to a workplace pension scheme in April 2023, an increase of 2.5% 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 30% over that period. Occupational Defined Contribution has increased sixfold since 2011, from 4% to 26%, 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 83%, closely followed by those aged 50-59 (also 83%).
- More than nine out of ten public sector employees (94%) and around two out of three (65%) private sector employees were members of a workplace pension scheme in 2023. This is an increase of 16 percentage points (pps) for public sector employees and 43pps for private sector employees since the introduction of automatic enrolment in 2012.
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