When asked what’s so great about a federal job, employees—and those who recruit them—often respond by highlighting desirable job benefits that come with working for the government.

Indeed, the Office of Personnel Management’s own Federal Employee Benefits Surveys, cumulatively covering hundreds of thousands of feds, have consistently reinforced this point—showing around 80% or more of feds identify strong benefits programs (led by federal retirement annuities, the Thrift Savings Plan and Federal Employees Health Benefits insurance programs) as a major part of why they stick with their jobs.

The Employee Benefit Research Institute recently published a new report exploring such issues—one zeroing in on what makes a job “sticky” for employees, covering data and anecdotal evidence on private- and public-sector employment over the last 40 years.

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Craig Copeland, EBRI’s director of Wealth Benefits Research parsed these findings for Government Executive and affirmed that attractive federal benefits remain crucial in helping agencies retain feds.

“Yes, it is still clear that public sector employees—including feds—are more likely to stay at their job longer than other sectors, at least up until recent years,” Copeland told Government Executive. “The defined benefits plans that public sector jobs usually provide typically are an important part of the reason that public sector employees stay longer—as well as because of the overall typically better benefits offered...

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