Employee benefits benchmarking for UK employers
See where your benefits sit against UK employers of your sector and size: pension, sick pay, family leave, holiday, health cover, life assurance, allowances and wellbeing, with the sample size on every figure.
What UK employers offer, benefit by benefit
The headline from each of the benchmark’s research papers, with the number of organisations behind it. Each card opens its paper: the exact question asked and the full distribution of answers. As a member, you see where your own policy sits on each of them.
say their workplace pension meets the PLSA quality-mark threshold of 12% in total and 6% from the employer (n = 264).
Read the paper → Sick pay56.0%pay some enhanced sick pay, combined with SSP or above it (38.5% + 17.5%, n = 257).
Read the paper → Maternity & adoption69.2%enhance maternity and adoption pay in some form (43.8% + 25.4%, n = 256).
Read the paper → Annual leave24 daysmedian annual leave excluding bank holidays; the middle half give 22 to 26 days (n = 260).
Read the paper → Health cover69.5%offer private medical insurance (n = 269).
Read the paper → Life assurance2×salary is the most common level of group life assurance, at 50.2% (n = 239).
Read the paper → Allowances46.1%offer a car allowance, the allowance most often offered (n = 267).
Read the paper → Wellbeing72.4%provide an Employee Assistance Programme (n = 268).
Read the paper →All figures: the lumi reward benchmark, collection window 2026 H1. Shares joined by + are the answers that make up the total. How each figure is built is in the methodology.
How it works
- Say what you doOne questionnaire about your policies, not your people. Most questions are one click, and you can stop and come back.
- See where you standEvery answer is placed against your peer group, your sector and size band by default or a group you draw: below, on or above market, with the number of employers behind it.
- Model a changeScenarios shows what adding, removing or re-levelling a benefit does to your position before you make it. See the example dashboard, a fictional organisation with every figure invented.
What it costs
Free access: no fee and nothing to sign. Access ends on 31 March 2027 unless you join. To stay, from 1 April 2027, membership is £5,000 + VAT a year as a standard member, with unlimited users. Or take a founding place, one of the first 20, by 31 December 2026. See both ways in.
Other ways to benchmark benefits
Broker and consultant surveys, industry clubs and published research each answer part of the question. Benchmarking benefits and reward policy in the UK: the main options sets them side by side.