Emerging From the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Compendium About U.S. Workers' Retirement Outlook

Demographic influences can profoundly affect a worker’s ability to save and prepare for a financially secure retirement. Enhancing retirement security in the U.S. requires recognizing and addressing demographic disparities, implementing public policy reforms, and future-proofing the retirement system so that all workers can retire with dignity.

Emerging From the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Compendium About U.S. Workers' Retirement Outlook is an in-depth research report that provides demographic analyses and insights about workers by employment status (full-time vs. part-time), household income, educational attainment, urbanicity, caregiver status, LGBTQ+ status, and race/ethnicity by White, Black/African American, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander (AAPI). It offers more than 35 key indicators of retirement readiness such as access to retirement plans, emergency savings, health care savings, household retirement savings, and employment impacts from the pandemic.

Every election cycle, the Compendium also features American's perspectives on retirement security priorities for the President and Congress ranging from addressing Social Security and Medicare's funding shortfalls, expanding the Saver's Credit, supporting family caregivers, to implementing financial literacy curriculums in schools, and more.

The Compendium is based on findings from Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies' 22nd Annual Retirement Survey conducted in late 2021 among more than 5,700 workers of for-profit companies.