Other survey findings include:

Among workers who provided the value of their savings and investments outside of the value of their home and any defined benefit plan assets, 33 percent report that they have $250,000 or more in assets and 21 percent have less than $10,000.
Of workers currently participating in a workplace retirement savings plan, 42 percent actively choose their investments, compared with 24 percent who only use the default investment option and 26 percent who use some combination of both.
Almost three-quarters of workers are very or somewhat confident in their ability to choose the right retirement products or investments for their situation. However, only 27 percent are very confident.
When choosing investments, the factor most often cited by workers currently contributing to an employer-sponsored retirement savings plan is the performance/growth over time of the investment (43 percent).
Eight in ten workers are very or somewhat satisfied with their workplace retirement savings plan.
When workers are asked what the most valuable improvements to their workplace retirement savings plan are, the most cited improvement is better explanations for how much income their savings will produce in retirement (33 percent).
Thirty-one percent of workers who were offered a workplace retirement savings plan report having made changes to either their contributions or the way their savings are invested since Jan. 1, 2020.

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