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MD14

Minnesota137

Florida302

752number of plans

among all the other

states combined

10 or fewermembers

68.0%

11 to 25members

18.9%

26 to 50members

8.0%

51 or moremembers

5.1%

Local Defined Benefit Plans by Select States

Municipal Pensions

Distribution of Municipal Pension by Number of Active Members

Growth in PA Local Government Pension Plans3500

3000

2500

2000

1500

1000

500

0

1974 1978 1982 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011

Authority

Borough

Townships(1st & 2nd Class)

Council of GovernmentCounty

City

49

4

1,

354

1,

080

6072

168

1600

1991

2284

2407

2512

2599

2704

2767

2848

2913

2995

3055

3098

3129

3160

3207

3228

NumberofPlans

There are 3,196 local government defined

benefit plans in the United States. Pennsylvania

is home to 1,422, or 44%, of those plans. In fact

Pennsylvania has more than three times as manypublic employee defined benefit pension plans

as any other state.

An often used threshold to classify a public pension plan as large or small is 100

employees. Using that criterion, 98% of Pennsylvanias local government pension plans are

small. Broken down further, 95% of the states plans have fewer than 50 employees and

32% have three or fewer active members.

The number of local government

pension plans has increased with eac

report of the PA Public Employee

Retirement Commission since

reporting requirements went intoeffect in 1974. The overall increase

since that time has been 102%. Of th

21 plans created between 2009 and

2011, only two had 10 or more

members.

Source: Status Report on Local Government Pension Plans, Pennsylvania Public Employee Retirement

Commission, Dec. 2012.

Source: Public-Employee Retirement Systems State- and

Locally-Administered Pensions Summary Report:

2010, U.S. Census Bureau, April 2012.

Source: Status Report on Local Government

Pension Plans, Pennsylvania Public Employee

Retirement Commission, December 2012.

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