Check out WPRI.com’s slick new town-by-town pension map

October 31st, 2011 at 3:57 pm by under Nesi's Notes

One of the talking points Treasurer Raimondo and Governor Chafee are using to promote their pension bill is the savings it would provide city and town budgets starting next year. So how much would your community save?

You can find out using our new interactive map on WPRI.com. It shows how much each municipality’s taxpayers put into the state-run pension fund this year, and how much they’ll put in next year under current law or if the Raimondo-Chafee bill passes.

Every community in Rhode Island puts money into the state-run system to cover their teachers’ pensions, and many also have a state-managed municipal plan. But some – including Providence, Warwick and Cranston – spend even more than the amount shown on our map because they have a locally run plan, too. (It also excludes regional school districts’ contributions.)

Here’s the map. Bravo to my new colleague, WPRI.com digital ace Brian Curtin, for putting it together.

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4 Responses to “Check out WPRI.com’s slick new town-by-town pension map”

  1. Paul says:
    October 31, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    Is this going to be updated after the legislature makes it’s changes? Seems to me that this is an advertisement for Raimondo’s plan.

    1. Ted Nesi says:
      October 31, 2011 at 4:14 pm

      Paul, we’ll definitely update it as long as the legislature gives us new information. They have the numbers.

  2. Doug from South County says:
    October 31, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    It is a nice map, but doesn’t reflect the problems as Ted references. Local pensions on top of this. Fortunately, Narragansett has paid the state plan for the teachers or they would be in deep doodoo. Not so for their other employees. Now funding at 63% by choice. Once 100% plan down to 69.9 according to Auditor General Hoyle in May 2011

  3. Chris O'Leary says:
    November 1, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    Cheers to WPRI for using their resources to make informational available, interactive, and visually appealing.

    Since the Projo’s E-Edition is just a static version of the newspaper and won’t offer this type of interactive content anymore, I hope WPRI will make this a regular habit!