All five states provide traditional final
average salary defined - benefit plans to teachers, with some differences.
If you don't think the classic Final
Average Salary Defined Benefit plans are the way to go, there are a lot of better options than throwing everyone into a 401k.
Not exact matches
The party's new policy expresses great concern that the current methods used to evaluate
defined benefit (ie final
salary and career
average) pensions have been unable to cope with these unprecedented market conditions, and this, coupled with over-regulation on the part of the Pensions Regulator, had produced wildly volatile deficits which no - one could predict — wholly unsatisfactory for schemes that have to plan over half a century.
Even after the changes, the Pensions Policy Institute recently calculated that contributions to the teachers» pension scheme will be worth twice as much as a percentage of their
salary as those the
average private sector worker receives from their employer under a
defined contribution scheme.
It turns out that this is the natural result of the most common type of teacher pension plan (known as final
average salary (FAS)
defined benefit plans).
Defined benefit plans provide retirees with a guaranteed lifetime benefit, the annual value of which is typically based on number of years of service and
average salary during the final years of their careers.
Spiking of final
average salary is one factor among many that contributes to the underfunding of
defined benefit pension systems in Missouri and in other states.
On one side, some reformers have favored scrapping traditional teacher pension plans (
defined benefit, or DB, of the «final
average salary» type) in favor of the IRA - type plans received by most private - sector professionals (
defined contribution, DC).
Typically,
defined - benefit plans calculate your benefits based on factors such as the number of years you've been a member of the pension plan, your
average (or perhaps peak)
salary, your retirement age, etc..
A bit of background information, I currently have a pretty good
defined pension plan with my employer, above
average salary and ability to contribute to savings, high earning potential, and a low cost...
As well as advising on traditional final
salary schemes, Catherine has experience of
defined contribution schemes and dealing with the ever increasing governance requirements, career
average revalued earnings (CARE) schemes, and cash balance schemes and how they have been impacted by legislative change to clarify the meaning of «money purchase».