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Equable is a bipartisan nonprofit that educates and informs employees, retirees, labor, management, and taxpayers about how to create real retirement plan sustainability and affordability without sacrificing future income security.

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Understanding your retirement better

Public workers like you devote your careers to helping others – and you’re counting on a secure retirement in return for your service. But fully understanding retirement benefits, like pensions, can be challenging. Equable is here to help empower you with education, insight and the latest public worker retirement news.

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Employers, plan administrators, policymakers and others are dedicated to ensuring public retirement plan sustainability, particularly in the face of today’s pension challenges. Equable helps all stakeholders to adopt best practices with the latest information and research on public worker pensions and retirement plans.

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Learn about the status of your state

Want to know how your state is managing its pension and retirement promises? Or how much employees have to contribute toward their pension and retirement benefits? Select a state to see a snapshot of your state's retirement system.

The latest pension & retirement news

Article August 19, 2019

Why Equable Institute Cares about Retirement Security

For America’s states and local governments to function properly and thrive — that is, to provide effective and efficient governance — the institutions within its municipalities must be healthy, strong, and meeting their objectives.¹ Public sector retirement systems are one important tool used by those institutions to meet their objectives, as a component of total […]
Article September 9, 2019

Arizona’s Contribution Just Rate Keeps on Growing

Download The Report | The Contribution Rate Keeps on Growing: Why Persistent Pension Debt Has Created Challenges for ASRS That Arizona Should Fix as Soon as Possible (PDF) Arizona’s largest retirement system is facing unfunded liabilities that are more than $14 billion. The costs of dealing with this perpetual pension debt just keep growing. The […]
Article August 19, 2019

Why COLAs Matter for Retirement Security

Everyone has their favorite moment of realizing the effects of inflation. Just five cents for a bottle of Coke? You’d be lucky to get that back as a bottle deposit today. A dime for a comic book? No amount of superhero time travel will bring that back. Less than a dollar for a gallon of […]