Most households with individuals employed in state and local government can expect to receive at retirement well below the 80% of pre-retirement income needed to maintain their pre-retirement living standards, according to new research.
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College published this finding in a November brief, "How Prepared Are State and Local Workers for Retirement." The brief summarizes the results of a paper that uses a Health and Retirement Study and actuarial reports published by state and local pension systems to examine whether state and local workers have more than enough money for retirement.
Households with a long-service state-local workers—those who spend more than half of their careers in public employment—have a median "replacement rate," including Social Security, of only 72%, the brief finds. The research defines replacement rate as the extent to which older people can maintain pre-retirement levels of consumption once they stop working.
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