Hawaii has the highest rate of private employers that offer health insurance to their employees, while Montana has the lowest, according to 2022 data published by KFF and sourced from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
The national average is 48.3 percent. Private sector employers include incorporated for profit and nonprofit firms and do not include unincorporated private firms or government organizations.
States ranked by percentage of employers offering health insurance:
- Hawaii: 80.7 percent
- District of Columbia: 65.5 percent
- Massachusetts: 60.5 percent
- Virginia: 57.9 percent
- New Jersey: 56.1 percent
- Pennsylvania: 56.0 percent
- Indiana: 54.1 percent
- Maryland: 54.0 percent
- Minnesota: 53.7 percent
- Oregon: 53.5 percent
- Alabama: 53.2 percent
- Kansas: 52.9 percent
- Oklahoma: 52.4 percent
- Illinois: 52.1 percent
- Iowa: 51.8 percent
- Wisconsin: 51.8 percent
- Mississippi: 51.3 percent
- Colorado: 51.2 percent
- Delaware: 51.2 percent
- Louisiana: 50.8 percent
- Rhode Island: 50.5 percent
- Kentucky: 49.8 percent
- New Mexico: 49.8 percent
- North Dakota: 49.8 percent
- Tennessee: 48.8 percent
- Washington: 48.8 percent
- Nevada: 48.6 percent
- West Virginia: 47.7 percent
- New Hampshire: 47.6 percent
- Arkansas: 47.5 percent
- Connecticut: 46.9 percent
- California: 46.8 percent
- New York: 46.8 percent
- South Dakota: 46.5 percent
- Ohio: 46.3 percent
- Texas: 46.1 percent
- Michigan: 45.5 percent
- Missouri: 45.5 percent
- South Carolina: 45.5 percent
- Arizona: 45.2 percent
- North Carolina: 43.3 percent
- Georgia: 42.9 percent
- Maine: 42.0 percent
- Nebraska: 41.2 percent
- Wyoming: 40.9 percent
- Idaho: 39.8 percent
- Florida: 39.1 percent
- Utah: 38.9 percent
- Vermont: 37.2 percent
- Alaska: 36.3 percent
- Montana: 34.1 percent