Summary of the 2010 Annual Survey of Public-Employee Retirement Systems: State-Administered Pensions

摘要

This report is part of a continuing series designed to provide information on the structure, function, employment, and finances of the United States nearly 90,000 state and local governments. The U.S. Census Bureau produces data quinquennially as part of the Census of Governments (CoG) in years ending in 2 and 7. Additional statistics are produced annually and quarterly during the intercensal period from data collected from a series of surveys. These surveys provide a wealth of information on state and local government employment and financial activity. This publication presents data on state-administered retirement systems based on information collected from the 2010 Annual Survey of Public-Employee Retirement Systems. The data collected from these systems are for defined benefit plans only and do not include data for defined contribution plans or other postemployment benefit plans. Data in this report refer to fiscal years that ended between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010 (FY2010), and do not reflect data for the entire calendar year of 2010. This survey covers the following retirement system activities: revenues by state (earnings on investments, employee contributions, government contributions); expenditures by state (benefits, withdrawals, other payments); cash and investment holdings by state (governmental securities, corporate stocks and bonds, foreign and international securities, etc.); membership information by state (number of retirement systems, total members, beneficiaries receiving periodic payments); and liabilities information by state for state-administered retirement systems only (covered payroll and pension obligations).