Massachusetts Biotechnology Employee Benefits Survey
May 2026
This is the sixteenth annual LHS Benefits Massachusetts Biotechnology Employee Benefits Survey. One hundred and thirty-two companies participated in the 2026 survey. The Employee Benefits Survey has maintained a consistent methodology for the duration of its existence.
This survey of employee benefits was conducted online in May of 2026. Most of the survey concerned the participants’ current medical, dental, life, disability, retirement savings and paid time off plans. The survey primarily focuses on benefits, costs, employee contributions, and company employee benefits policies and practices.
The Employee Benefits Survey includes information on the following:
Medical plan design
Dental plan design
Employee medical and dental contributions and cost-sharing
Medical and dental cost and trend
Vision plan design
Life, Short/Long Term Disability benefits
401(k) plan design
Vacation and paid time off
Leaves
The Employee Benefits Survey has dynamic pricing for participants. At no cost, all participants receive a report of this year’s trends. Participants are the first to receive information about 2026 medical trend, employee contributions, retirement plan match formulas, time off and leave trends, among other findings.
Participants receive discounted pricing on the full personalized survey providing more than eighty pages of information on Employee Benefits for Massachusetts Biotech companies. The personalized benchmarking report has more than forty individually benchmarked data points, comparing your company’s benefits to all survey participants and broken out by company size.