Employee Benefits Broking
Increasing Employer Benefit Challenges
A constantly evolving social and economic landscape means employers are trying to reduce their risk and manage costs while meeting the expectations of a changing workforce. An employee benefits consultant and broker can help you achieve your company benefit goals related to controlling costs, attracting and retaining talent, and improving the health and wellbeing of your employees.
Employers Face Increasing Healthcare Costs
Medical trend for 2026 is expected to stay high, driven by specialty drug inflation, provider labor costs, and rising utilization. Specialty drugs now make up over half of pharmacy spend, growing at double digit rates, and high cost claimants drive a large share of total costs.
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9.5%
Aon projects a 9.5% increase in U.S. employer healthcare costs in 2026. This reflects one of the highest sustained medical trend environments in more than 20 years, keeping U.S. employers near double‑digit cost growth for a third consecutive year.
Source: Aon Global Medical Trend Report
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#1
Managing healthcare cost and trend is the top priority for employers
Source: Aon Health Survey
How Employee Benefits Broking Can Help
Aon’s extensive experience in employee benefits broking, and our ability to leverage strategic relationships, helps employers implement a competitive and cost-effective company benefits package to support your employees.
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Detailed Carrier Knowledge
Aon uses $650 billion in claims data to provide valuable information to your company about carrier discounts, network coverage and provider access. Our strategic carrier relationships help companies to manage rate volatility while offering the right plans your people will appreciate and value.
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Insurance Market Purchasing Power
Our size and scale ensure our clients get the most advanced and competitive programs. As a result, you will know you are accessing proven carriers with the industry’s best terms, conditions, and pricing to support your employees while managing your budget.
Aon’s combination of global resources, industry expertise and innovation allow organizations to hand off cumbersome health and benefits strategy and focus more on running their enterprise.
Why Work with Aon
Aon’s benefits brokerage team brings extensive knowledge and experience across the entire category of health and benefits, enabling us to develop scalable solutions for our clients. We take a collaborative approach, offering end-to-end support and best-practice employee benefits broking to help you achieve your company benefits goals related to controlling costs, ensuring compliance, attracting and retaining talent and reducing administrative burden.
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Client Engagement
Aligning what is important to your organization with the right combination of carrier and market offerings through our health and benefits placement processes.
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Carrier Engagement
Leveraging our longstanding carrier relationships to negotiate enhanced terms and conditions and competitive rates to deliver the best value health and benefits packages for our clients.
Using our strategic insights, extensive data and analytics capabilities and innovative solutions, Aon’s benefits consulting and broking practice helps companies optimize benefits spend by mitigating risk and reducing cost while supporting employee needs.
$650B
Aon’s team uses $650 billion in claims data to provide valuable information to your company about carrier discounts, network coverage and provider access.
