Aon: Employer Healthcare Costs to Increase in 2025

Sept. 6, 2024
Aon Plc estimates U.S. employer healthcare costs to rise 9 percent in the coming year

Aon Plc, a global professional services firm in London, published estimates on August 15, indicating a 9 percent increase in the average cost of U.S. employer-sponsored healthcare coverage in 2025.

According to the PR Newswire news brief, the projected increase would surpass $16,000 per employee. The average budget health plan per employee in 2024 is $14,823. “This projected increase, which assumes employers do not implement employee cost-sharing increases and other cost-saving strategies, is higher than the 6.4 percent increase to health care budgets that employers experienced from 2023 to 2024 after cost-savings strategies.”

"In the health care sector, both rising employment levels and wage increases fueled by economy-wide inflation during the past few years are pushing health care costs higher," said Debbie Ashford, the North America chief actuary for Health Solutions at Aon, in a statement.

Information from over 950 U.S. employers representing about 6.7 million employees was used for Aon’s analysis.

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