Summary
The RCS is the longest-running survey of its kind, measuring worker and retiree confidence about retirement, and is conducted jointly by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Greenwald Research.
The 2025 RCS was fielded with two samples (for a total of n=2,767): a general population sample of 2,047 Americans, including 1,042 workers and 1,005 retirees, plus an oversample of 720 non-Hispanic Black or African American respondents (resulting in a total of 520 Black workers and 481 Black retirees between the two samples). The survey of both samples was conducted online January 2 through February 3, 2025. All respondents were ages 25 or older.
The general population sample was weighted by age, sex, household income, and race/ethnicity. All Black or African American respondents (regardless of sample) were weighted separately by age, sex, and household income to reflect the Black/African American population in the United States. 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 for retirees, ± 4.3 for Black workers, and ± 4.5 for Black retirees in a similarly sized random sample.