Benefits and Allowances 2024: Health and Wellbeing Benefits

The 2024 Brightmine survey of benefits and allowances. This part of the survey provides data on employers' use of health and wellbeing benefits, including: counselling/employee assistance programmes; private medical insurance; permanent health insurance; critical illness insurance; healthcare cash plans; life assurance/death-in-service benefits; and dental cover. The survey is based on responses from 470 organisations with a combined workforce of 4,591,108 employees.

Survey questions

• What health and wellbeing benefits does your organisation offer?
• To whom does your organisation offer private medical insurance (PMI)?
  • What level of private medical insurance (PMI) cover does your organisation provide and pay for in full for directors?
  • What level of private medical insurance (PMI) cover does your organisation provide and pay for in full for managers?
  • What level of private medical insurance (PMI) cover does your organisation provide and pay for in full for staff?
  • What is the typical annual premium for single private medical insurance cover at your organisation?
• To whom does your organisation offer permanent health insurance (PHI) or income protection?
  • What percentage of salary does the permanent health insurance/income protection typically cover?
  • What is the deferral period for permanent health insurance (PHI)/income protection payments at your organisation?
• To whom does your organisation offer critical illness insurance?
• To whom does your organisation offer a healthcare cash plan?
  • How much does your organisation typically pay per employee each month towards their healthcare cash plan?
• To whom does your organisation offer life assurance/death-in-service benefits?
  • What salary multiple is available from your organisation's life assurance/death-in-service benefit?
• To whom does your organisation offer health screening?
• To whom does your organisation offer counselling/an employee assistance programme (EAP)?
• To whom does your organisation offer an attendance allowance/bonus?
• To whom does your organisation offer free or subsidised gym membership/exercise classes?
• To whom does your organisation offer optical benefits?
• To whom does your organisation offer dental insurance?
• To whom does your organisation offer flu injections?
• To whom does your organisation offer a financial wellbeing programme?