A better approach is to consider the value of the defined
benefit pension compared to the other retirement assets.
Not exact matches
Pierlot wrote a paper for the CD Howe Institute in 2011 showing that a person with a salary of $ 75,000 at the end of a 35 - year career would accumulate more than $ 1.4 million in savings through a defined -
benefit plan (wherein the pensioner is paid a set income based on past earnings and years of service, mostly confined to the public sector these days)
compared to $ 674,711 for someone with no
pension but a maxed - out Registered Retirement Savings Plan.
In
comparing total compensation, HR professionals use a rough guideline that
benefits can total 20 per cent of income once you include vacation, health and
pensions.
Additionally, the Public Sector
Pensions Commission recently estimated that a huge 94 per cent of public sector employees are still on unsustainable defined
benefit schemes,
compared to just 11 per cent in the private sector.
Pensions and health costs for teachers and other staff are substantially higher for the traditional, unionized public schools
compared to charters, which offer their employees 401ks rather than more generous defined
benefit plans.
A long - standing literature has regularly shown that DB
pensions substantially reduce turnover
compared to other retirement
benefits, suggesting that a
benefit switch will increase turnover.
This is because they triple the
pension benefit for teachers
compared to the BLS measure, estimating it to be 32 percent of wages rather than 11 percent.
Figure 2 illustrates this point by
comparing pension contributions and
benefits for «same - vintage» senior teachers, principals, and superintendents, and the much younger novice teachers.
The simulation indicates that the average man who retires at 55 will receive a
pension benefit worth 23 percent of his lifetime earnings, as
compared to 19 percent for the average woman.
The figure below
compares the
pension benefit offered to existing workers as of December 2010 (the dotted line) to the
pension plan offered to new workers hired after January 1, 2011 (the solid line).
And because
pension plans are based on a formula that factors in salary levels, employees with higher salaries (like district superintendents and administrators) tend to earn disproportionately large
benefits compared to teachers.
Unhappy with those findings, they then exaggerated the value of teacher compensation by
comparing the retirement
benefits of the small minority of teachers who stay in the classroom for 30 years, rather than
comparing the
pension benefits for the typical teacher to their peers in other professions.
As with most public - sector jobs, compensation for teaching is weighted more heavily toward
pension and health
benefits compared to the private sector.
During the peak era for defined
benefit pension plans, only 22 percent of retirees in the bottom quartile had any retirement income other than Social Security,
compared to 64 percent among those in the highest quartile.
If we
compare those numbers to the amount teachers report earning through side hustles, teachers in at least 47 states and Washington D.C. would
benefit (these states have at least some
pension debt that's costing teachers money) and of those, 26 (highlighted below) would out - earn their average side hustle.
This point becomes abundantly clear when
comparing participants in 401 (k) plans and defined
benefit (traditional)
pensions.
For example, the average CPP
benefit payment for all Canadian workers is $ 5,919 a year,
compared to an average annual Ontario Teachers»
Pension Plan of $ 42,900 (as of 2010.)
Investment Returns: Defined
Benefit Vs. Defined Contribution Plans The Boston College Center for Retirement Research compares the investment performance of pension plans and 401 (k)- type defined contribution plans, finding that higher fees are the main reason 401 (k) and similar plans tend to underperform their defined - benefit counte
Benefit Vs. Defined Contribution Plans The Boston College Center for Retirement Research
compares the investment performance of
pension plans and 401 (k)- type defined contribution plans, finding that higher fees are the main reason 401 (k) and similar plans tend to underperform their defined -
benefit counte
benefit counterparts.
Investment Returns: Defined
Benefit Vs. Defined Contribution Plans This Boston College Center for Retirement Research study
compares the returns of
pension plans vs. 401 (k)- type defined contribution plans.
Even if they do, it's a tiny pittance
compared to how much employers were compensating employees back in the good «ol days with actual defined
benefit pension plans for retirement.
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