Tax Data, Charts, and Maps
State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems
While most Americans plan for their retirement with the aid of various employer-sponsored retirement plans, in the public sector defined-benefit and pension plans are still the norm. In 2007 there were almost 7.5 million retired government employees receiving benefits from the 2,547 state and local government employee retirement systems in the United States, meaning that there were just over 40 Americans per beneficiary. The average annual benefit paid out was $21,801.
This section presents data on these government retirement plans such as the average benefit paid per beneficiary, state population per beneficiary, and employer versus employee contributions to the plans. This section also includes data on receipts and investments of state and local government retirement systems. The data are from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 Survey of Public Employee-Retirement Systems.
Tax Data from The Tax Foundation
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Benefits Paid as Percent of State and Local Government Direct Expenditure, FY 2005-2006 , September 21, 2009
- State Government Employee Retirement Systems - Benefits Paid as Percent of State Government Direct Expenditure, FY 2005-2006 , September 21, 2009
- Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Benefits Paid as Percent of Local Government Direct Expenditure, FY 2005-2006 , September 21, 2009
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Benefits per Beneficiary, FY 2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Percent of Investment Portfolio, FY2006-2007, September 21, 2009
- State Government Employee Retirement Systems - Percent of Investment Portfolio, FY2006-2007, September 21, 2009
- Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Percent of Investment Portfolio, FY2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Investment Portfolio, FY2006-2007, September 21, 2009
- State Government Employee Retirement Systems - Investment Portfolio, FY2006-2007, September 21, 2009
- Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Investment Portfolio, FY2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Employer Contributions Per Dollar of Employee Contributions, FY 2006-2007, September 21, 2009
- State Government Employee Retirement Systems - Employer Contributions Per Dollar of Employee Contributions, FY 2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Employer Contributions Per Dollar of Employee Contributions, FY 2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Members and Beneficiaries, FY 2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- State Government Employee Retirement Systems - Receipts by Source, FY 2006-2007, September 21, 2009
- Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Receipts by Source, FY 2006-2007, September 21, 2009
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Receipts by Source, FY 2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems - Expenditures, FY 2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- Local-Level Government Employee Retirement Systems - Expenditures, FY 2006-2007 , September 21, 2009
- State-Level Government Employee Retirement Systems - Expenditures, FY 06-07 , September 21, 2009