How to Calculate Your Pension
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Learn to calculate your pension using the pension benefit formula. Try our pension calculator to estimate your retirement income.
Audience: Public Workers
Pension Vesting Periods by State
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Understand how public pension vesting periods work. Learn how state rules, retention goals, and plan types affect your retirement benefits.
What is a Defined Benefit Plan?
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Defined benefit plans are a common way to provide retirement income. The most typical defined benefit plan is based on final average salary, and is […]
Pension Plan Funded Ratio Rankings 2025
By David Tony
The average national funded ratio rose to 82.5% in 2025, yet many plans remain burdened by unfunded liabilities. See which plans rank highest.
California Pensions: Funded Status, Unfunded Liabilities, and Trends
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Explore the financial health of California’s public pensions. Analyze 2025 funded ratios, unfunded liabilities, and investment trends for CalPERS and CalSTRS.
Pension Myths & Facts: The Assumed Rate of Return Does Not Determine the Value of Benefits
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Your pension value is independent of your fund’s investment performance. See why the assumed rate of return doesn’t change what you’re owed.
Pension Myths & Facts: Pensions are Not Funded like Social Security
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Do pensions depend on hiring more public employees? Learn why pensions differ from Social Security and how benefits are actually funded.
Pension Basics: Pension Governance
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Explore the essentials of pension governance. Learn how pension boards and legislatures ensure retirement security for public employees.
Pension Basics: Funded Status
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Learn how pensions measure their ability to pay benefits, the impact of unfunded liabilities, and why it matters to workers and taxpayers.
Pension Basics: Paying the Pension Bill
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Discover why paying the pension bill consistently is vital for pension stability and workers’ retirement security.