Mar
20
Even San Francisco, Flush With Tech Wealth, Has Pension Problems
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Pension cost to rise more than three times faster than revenue
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With retirees living longer, pension shortfall has swelled
The skyline of downtown San Francisco.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
The technology industry has transformed San Francisco with a boom other cities can only envy. But it hasn’t eradicated a problem well known to industrial-era towns: the rising cost of pensions.
The city, where the unemployment rate is just 3.2 percent and the typical home sells for more than $1 million, is facing a budget shortfall that will reach $848 million in five years. Increases in pension payments and other payroll costs are driving the gap, according to a five-year financial plan, despite a measure voters approved in 2011 that aimed to cut employee-retirement bills…
Even San Francisco, Flush With Tech Wealth, Has Pension Problems
