Wisconsin state and local government retirees got a better pension deal than almost all their counterparts across the country in the 2001-02 fiscal year, a report released Tuesday found.
The average monthly pension payment to state and local government retirees for the year that ended June 30, 2002, was $1,958, second only to Rhode Island, where government retirees got an average $1,969 a month, according to the study from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. The national average for that period was $1,427 a month.