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The State of Confusion wants to change the current retirement policy for state employees. To do so, however, the state must pay the current pension fund members the present value of their promised future payments. There are 210,000 current employees in the state pension fund. The average employee is 18 years away from retirement, and the average promised future retirement benefit is $360,000 per employee. If the state has a discount rate of 4.5% on all its funds, how much money will the state have to pay to the employees before it can start a new pension plan?
Future Amount per employee = 360,000
Number of Employees = 210,000
Total Future amount = 360000*210000
Time to retirement left = 18 years average
Discount rate = 4.5%
Present Value of the future benifits = 360000*210000/(1.045^18) = 34,231,707,880
For each employee it has to pay = 34,231,707,880/210,000 = 163,008.1328