March 9, 2011 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

State and local government employee benefits, March 2010

Percentage with access to and participation in retirement and health care benefits, State and local government workers, March 2010
Benefit	Access	Participation
Retirement benefits
Defined-benefit plans
State	87	78
Local	83	79
Defined-contribution plans
State	43	25
Local	24	14
Health care
Medical care
State	94	82
Local	86	69
Outpatient prescription drug coverage
State	93	82
Local	84	68
Dental care
State	59	52
Local	53	45
Vision care
State	49	37
Local	33	28

Percentage with access to paid leave benefits, State and local government workers, March 2010
Benefit	Percent of State government workers	Percent of local government workers
Paid jury duty leave	94	90
Paid sick leave	94	88
Paid funeral leave	90	83
Paid holidays	90	60
Paid military leave	88	71
Paid vacations	86	51
Paid personal leave	54	61
Paid family leave	19	16

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