Massachusetts Biotechnology Employee Benefits Survey

May 2025


This is the fifteenth annual LHS Benefits Massachusetts Biotechnology Employee Benefits Survey. One hundred and fifty-six companies participated in the 2025 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 2025. 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 2025 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 seventy-five 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.

More detail on our annual survey >