Aon & HR in Law
2019 Employee Benefits Survey – Legal Sector

Let’s get back to basics. Why do employers offer benefits? Yes, it’s about valuing and rewarding your people, but it’s also about recruitment, retention, productivity, engagement and risk management - it helps fulfil a culture where people actively want to work.

We’re delighted to work with HR in Law, the network for human resources professionals in the legal sector, to bring sector-specific research and insight to legal firms.

The biennial Employee Benefits Survey takes a comprehensive view of benefits provision in the legal sector, across all areas of health and wellbeing, financial education, pensions, voluntary benefits, agile working and more.

Legal firm participants

The 2019 survey draws upon the responses from 96 participant law firms across Silver Circle, Legal 100, Regional, National, US and Global firms, providing unique benchmarking information and insights to help you measure the competitiveness of your benefits package to both professional and support staff.

Ten years on from the launch of the first report, these biennial reports continue to highlight the evolving benefit trends and engagement approaches within the legal sector, and this year is no different.

Key areas of focus

• Workplace Savings, Defined Contribution auto-enrolment, as well as the impending increase in minimum pension contributions.
• A rise in responsibility and ownership in relation to financial education, health and wellbeing as well as a move towards matching enhanced shared parental leave.
• A shift in trends and opportunities linking to wider benefit and communication strategies.

Workplace pensions - Snapshot results

Benefits communication and engagement - Snapshot results

Health & Wellbeing - Snapshot results

Overall, we hope you find this report useful as part of your ongoing employee benefits strategy planning and would encourage you to use these findings to help you consider how your benefits package benchmarks against the market.

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