BC Public Pension Plan Database

The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College maintains an interesting data set for public defined benefit pension plans.

The Public Plans Database offers data on 126 state and local defined benefit pension plans.

The data covers 90 percent of all state government pension plans, and 20 percent of local plans.  In all, the database covers 85 percent of all public pension plan assets and members.

This would seem to be a super interesting resource for those in media, research, etc who cover the whole public pension plan debate.

The BC database sheds like on the funding status, actuarial assumptions, and ultimately the viability of the public pension system.