Table 1: Defined benefit retirement plan: Percent of participants in plans that have frozen benefits, private industry workers, National Compensation Survey, March 2008

Table 1: Defined benefit retirement plan: Percent of participants in plans that have frozen benefits, private industry workers, National Compensation Survey, March 2008
	Open plans	Frozen plans
All workers	80	20
Worker characteristics
Management, professional, and related	81	19
Management, business, and financial	79	21
Professional and related	82	18
Service	80	20
Sales and office	75	25
Sales and related	61	39
Office and administrative support	80	20
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance	91	9
Construction, extraction, farming, fishing, and forestry	96	4
Installation, maintenance, and repair	86	14
Production, transportation, and material moving	79	21
Production	78	22
Transportation and material moving	81	19
Full time	81	19
Part time	75	25
Union	87	13
Nonunion	76	24
Average wage within the following percentiles (1)
Less than 10	46	54
10 to under 25	66	34
25 to under 50	78	22
50 to under 75	84	16
75 to under 90	83	17
90 or greater	80	20
Establishment characteristics
Goods-producing industries	81	19
Construction	100	–
Manufacturing	75	25
Service-providing industries	80	20
Trade, transportation, and utilities	71	29
Wholesale trade	79	21
Retail trade	55	45
Transportation and warehousing	82	18
Information	81	19
Financial activities	88	12
Finance and insurance	87	13
Credit intermediation and related activities	90	10
Insurance carriers and related activities	88	12
Professional and business services	84	16
Education and health services	83	17
Health care and social assistance	83	17
1 to 99 workers	85	15
1 to 49 workers	88	12
50 to 99 workers	81	19
100 workers or more	79	21
100 to 499 workers	75	25
500 workers or more	81	19
Geographic areas (2)
Metropolitan areas	80	20
Nonmetropolitan areas	84	16
New England	78	22
Middle Atlantic	84	16
East North Central	75	25
West North Central	83	17
South Atlantic	78	22
East South Central	66	34
West South Central	82	18
Pacific	88	12
Footnotes: (1) The percentile groupings are based on the average wage for each occupation surveyed, which may include workers both above and below the threshold. The percentile values are based on the estimates published in "National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2007." (2) The States that comprise the census divisions are: New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont; Middle Atlantic: New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania; South Atlantic: Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia; East South Central: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee; West South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas; East North Central: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin; West North Central: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota; Mountain: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming; and Pacific: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.
NOTE: A dash indicates no workers in the category or data did not meet publication criteria.