The average amount of money devoted to funding public pension plans equaled 7.9 percent of revenue generated by cities, a survey of 173 municipalities has found.
That figure, calculated by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence, was higher than the 5.6 percent number arrived at by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The center's calculations are based on how much cities should have paid to meet their pension obligations. The Census Bureau used as its basis the amount of money cities actually diverted to pension funds.
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