Table 32. Money purchase pension plans: Employer contributions, private industry workers, National Compensation
Survey, 2009

(All workers participating in money purchase pension plans = 100 percent)
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                          Fixed percent of earnings                                
                                      Fixed                                                                        
                                     percent                                                                 Not   
     Characteristics        Total       of       10th      25th      50th      75th      90th     Other   determin-
                                     earnings percenti- percenti- percenti- percenti- percenti-              able  
                                                  le        le        le        le        le                       
                                                                   (median)                                        
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   
  Worker characteristic                                                                                            
                                                                                                                   
All workers..............       100        65         –         –         –         –         –        34         2
                                                                                                                   
Management, professional,                                                                                          
and related..............       100        67         –         –         –         –         –        33         –
  Management, business,                                                                                            
  and financial..........       100        67         –         –         –         –         –        33         –
  Professional and                                                                                                 
  related................       100        67      2.00      3.00      5.00      8.30     10.00        33         –
Service..................       100        68         –         –         –         –         –        32         –
Sales and office.........       100        68         –         –         –         –         –        32         –
  Office and                                                                                                       
  administrative support        100        73         –         –         –         –         –        27         –
Natural resources,                                                                                                 
construction, and                                                                                                  
maintenance..............       100         –         –         –         –         –         –        56         –
  Construction,                                                                                                    
  extraction, farming,                                                                                             
  fishing, and forestry..       100         –         –         –         –         –         –        71         –
  Installation,                                                                                                    
  maintenance, and repair       100        80         –         –         –         –         –         –         –
Production,                                                                                                        
transportation, and                                                                                                
material moving..........       100        72         –         –         –         –         –         –         –
  Production.............       100        65      2.00      2.00      3.00      3.00      3.00         –         –
                                                                                                                   
Full time................       100        64         –         –         –         –         –        34         2
Part time................       100        72         –         –         –         –         –         –         –
                                                                                                                   
Union....................       100        41         –         –         –         –         –        50         9
Nonunion.................       100        70      2.00      3.00      4.00      7.00      9.00        30         –
                                                                                                                   
Average wage within the                                                                                            
following categories:(1)                                                                                           
  Lowest 25 percent......       100        84         –         –         –         –         –         –         –
  Second 25 percent......       100        65         –         –         –         –         –        31         4
  Third 25 percent.......       100        65      2.00      3.00      3.50      6.00     10.00        33         2
  Highest 25 percent.....       100        62         –         –         –         –         –        38       (2)
    Highest 10 percent...       100        68         –         –         –         –         –        32         –
                                                                                                                   
      Establishment                                                                                                
     characteristic                                                                                                
                                                                                                                   
Goods-producing                                                                                                    
industries...............       100        57         –         –         –         –         –        37         6
  Manufacturing..........       100        64         –         –         –         –         –         –         –
                                                                                                                   
Service-providing                                                                                                  
industries...............       100        68         –         –         –         –         –        32         –
  Education and health                                                                                             
  services...............       100        58      2.00      3.20      5.00      8.00     10.00        42         –
    Educational services        100        71      4.00      5.00      7.00     10.00     10.00        29         –
      Junior colleges,                                                                                             
      colleges, and                                                                                                
      universities.......       100        60      5.00      6.00      8.00     10.00     10.50        40         –
    Health care and                                                                                                
    social assistance....       100        53      2.00      3.00      5.00      8.00     10.00        47         –
                                                                                                                   
1 to 99 workers..........       100        71      3.00      3.00      4.00      8.00     10.00        29       (2)
  1 to 49 workers........       100        71      3.00      3.00      4.00      8.00     10.00        29       (2)
100 workers or more......       100        62         –         –         –         –         –        36         2
  100 to 499 workers.....       100        63         –         –         –         –         –        32         5
  500 workers or more....       100        60         –         –         –         –         –        40         –
                                                                                                                   
     Geographic area                                                                                               
                                                                                                                   
Middle Atlantic..........       100        67         –         –         –         –         –        24         9
East North Central.......       100        53      2.00      3.00      3.00      5.00      8.00        47         –
West North Central.......       100        83         –         –         –         –         –         –         –
South Atlantic...........       100        68      2.00      3.00      4.00      5.00      8.00        32         –
West South Central.......       100        59         –         –         –         –         –         –         –
Pacific..................       100        67         –         –         –         –         –        33         –

  1 The categories are based on the average wage for each occupation surveyed, which may include workers both above
and below the threshold. The average wages are based on the estimates published in the "National Compensation
Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2008." See Technical Note for more details.
  2 Less than 0.5 percent.

NOTE: Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal totals. Dashes indicate that no data were
reported or that data do not meet publication criteria. For definitions of major plans, key provisions, and related
terms, see the "Glossary of Employee Benefit Terms" at www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/glossary20092010.htm.