Total appropriation
$93.7M
$93,697,439
CY2025
$91M
Adopted
Change
$2.7M
+3.0%
What this department does

This $93.7 million section pays Jersey City’s required statutory employee-benefit costs, chiefly pension contributions for police, firefighters, and other public employees, plus Social Security and related retirement obligations.

Statutory expenditures are up $2.74 million, or 3.0%, from last year. The largest item is the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System contribution at $63.95 million—about two-thirds of the total—followed by $15.0 million for JC Employee Retirement. Social Security ($8.0 million) and the Public Employees’ Retirement System ($6.4 million) are the next-largest commitments.

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