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.

The Annual Survey of State & Local Public-Employee Retirement Systems provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for public employee retirement systems. Data are shown for individual retirement systems as well as at the national, state, and local level. There were 3,418 public employee retirement systems in the sampling frame, of which 1,798 systems were selected for the sample. The increase in the number of systems from 2008 to 2010is due to an increase in coverage of the retirement systems in Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Texas. A sample of these units was added in 2010. The coverage was improved through research and greatly impacted the local retirement systems universe. Any year-to-year comparisons should be exercised with caution.

The 2010 survey covered fiscal years that ended between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010 and does not reflect data for the entire calendar year of 2010.

Downloadable Data

Table 1. National Summary of Public-Employee Retirement Systems [<1.0 MB]

Table 2. Revenues by State & Local Government

(A) Revenues [<1.0 MB]

(B) Coefficient of Variation for Revenues [<1.0 MB]

Table 3. Expenditures by State & Local Government

(A) Expenditures [<1.0 MB]

(B) Coefficient of Variation for Expenditures [<1.0 MB]

Table 4. Cash and Investments by State & Local Government

(A) Cash and Investments [<1.0 MB]

(B) Coefficient of Variation for Cash and Investments [<1.0 MB]

Table 5. Membership by State & Local Government

(A) Membership [<1.0 MB]

(B) Coefficient of Variation for Membership [<1.0 MB]

Aggregates for the U.S. and by state of local government retirement systems and state retirement systems.

Estimate Data File [<1.0 MB]

Supporting Documentation [<1.0 MB]

Downloadable Dataset

Name of each public employee retirement system (fixed length, no delimiter)

Individual Unit File [2.5 MB]

Unit ID File

Name of each state-administered public pension system (fixed length, no delimiter).

Unit ID File [<1.0 MB]

File Layout

2010 Individual Unit and Unit ID File Layout [<1.0 MB]

Methodology

2010 Survey Methodology [<1.0MB]

Related Information

Annual Survey of Public Pensions Publications

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