State unfunded pension liability up X5 in last 11 years

The Boston Business Journal article on the state’s mushrooming pension liabilities  –

“Jim Lamenzo, the actuary for the state’s Public Employee Retirement Association Commission, said during a presentation Monday that the state’s unfunded pension liability stood at $23.6 billion as of Jan. 1, but has undoubtedly grown in the interim due to the delayed ripple effects of the state’s near 30 percent investment loss in the year following the downturn. Lamenzo said the state’s unfunded pension liability totaled $12.1 billion on Jan. 1, 2008, and was $4.8 billion as of Jan. 1, 2000 — meaning the commonwealth’s unfunded obligation to retired public workers has essentially quintupled over an 11-year span.”

Also, at that webpage they have a link to a searchable pension database where one can search the pension of any retired state official by name, or by all the employees in a particular state department.  Wm Bulger is getting $199K, Sal DiMasi is listed at $66K, but I believe his has been stopped.