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Auto-enrolment in numbers

20

Employees enrolled in pension in 2021

2,000,000

Employers now offering AE pension

20,000,000,000

Extra saved into workplace pensions 2020, compared to 2012

Adequacy of savings

5 to 1

ratio of funds saved into DB pensions compared to DC pensions

25.6

average % of earnings paid into DB scheme – of which employer pays average of 19.2%

8

minimum contribution level for AE DC schemes

Basic £10,900/£16,700
Moderate £20,800/£30,600
Comfortable £33,600/£49,700

PLSA retirement living standards: annual income single person/couple

17,000

additional savers brought into AE by ‘freezing’ £10,000 earnings trigger.

70% of these savers were women

Charges

AE equity and inclusion

PPI (2020)

71

pensions tax relief going to men

69

pension contributions made by men

Participation rates

PPI (2020)

Eligible workers contributed to workplace pension in 2021

88%

Eligible workers contributing to workplace pension scheme in 2012, before AE

55%
Source: DWP (2022): Call for evidence
Total pension participation across workforce - including all non-eligible workers

NOW

79%

BEFORE AE

47%
ONS (2022): Employee workplace pensions in the UK: 2021 provisional and 2020 final results

OPT-out rates

PPI (2020)

1 in 10

of eligible workers opt out.
Even among less financially-secure participation rates still over 90%

Small pots

Calculations updated for the Small Pots Cross Industry Co-Ordination Group, 2022, based on PPI estimates

22

number of small pension pots predicted by start of 2030
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