Employer-sponsored health insurance for current workers is one of the primary sources of health insurance coverage in the United States. According to data from the Insurance Component of the 2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-IC), approximately 96.7 million of the 113.9 million employees in the private sector worked in firms where the employer offered health insurance. Of those employees who worked where health insurance was offered, approximately 56.3 million were enrolled.
This Statistical Brief presents average offer and enrollment rates as well as premiums and employee contributions to premiums for single, employee-plus-one, and family coverage sponsored by private-sector employers in the 10 largest metropolitan areas of the United States: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, and Boston (listed from largest to smallest). These estimates are compared to national averages for the private sector. The estimates for employer-sponsored health insurance vary considerably by geographic area. The MEPS-IC also collects information from state and local governments, but those data are not included in this Brief.
Only those estimates with a statistically significant difference from the national average at the 0.05 significance level are noted in this text.