2025 Retirement Confidence Survey

The RCS is the longest-running survey of its kind, measuring worker and retiree confidence about retirement, and is conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Greenwald Research.

The 2025 survey of 2,767 Americans was conducted online January 2 through February 3, 2025. All respondents were ages 25 or older. The survey included 1,042 workers and 1,005 retirees — this year included an oversample of 720 completed surveys among non-Hispanic Black or African American respondents (resulting in a total of 520 Black workers and 481 Black retirees).

Data were weighted by age, sex, military status, household income, and race/ethnicity. Unweighted sample sizes are noted on charts to provide information for margin of error estimates. The margin of error would be ± 3 percentage points for workers, ± 3.1 retirees, ± 4.3 for Black workers, and ± 4.5 for Black retirees in a similarly sized random sample.