Nationally, nearly 95% of private sector employers with 50 or more employees offer health insurance to their workers, according to an analysis from KFF.
The 2025 data comes from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Insurance Component, an annual survey of employers
States ranked by percentage of large employers that offer health insurance:
- Missouri: 98.6%
- Oklahoma: 98.5%
- Minnesota: 97.9%
- District of Columbia: 97.7%
- Massachusetts: 97.7%
- Tennessee: 97.7%
- Connecticut: 97.6%
- Louisiana: 97.5%
- Wisconsin: 97.4%
- North Carolina: 97.2%
- Illinois: 97.1%
- Arizona: 97%
- Kansas: 96.8%
- Mississippi: 96.8%
- Georgia: 96.7%
- Hawaii: 96.7%
- Maryland: 96.6%
- Alabama: 96.5%
- Colorado: 96.4%
- Iowa: 96.3%
- Montana: 96.1%
- Nevada: 96.1%
- Pennsylvania: 96.1%
- Virginia: 96.1%
- Kentucky: 95.8%
- Delaware: 95.6%
- South Dakota: 95.5%
- New Jersey: 95.4%
- North Dakota: 95.4%
- South Carolina: 95.2%
- California: 95.1%
- Washington: 95.1%
- Oregon: 94.8%
- Arkansas: 94.7%
- Idaho: 94.1%
- New York: 94%
- Wyoming: 93.8%
- Rhode Island: 93.4%
- Maine: 93.3%
- Vermont: 93.1%
- New Mexico: 93%
- Michigan: 92.7%
- Nebraska: 92.7%
- Ohio: 92.6%
- Florida: 92.4%
- New Hampshire: 92.1%
- Utah: 92.1%
- Alaska: 91.6%
- Texas: 91.2%
- Indiana: 89.7%
- West Virginia: 87.9%
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