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Up-to-date tools, data, and materials to support your coverage of public retirement systems
- State of Pensions 2025 Link
- Financial Resilience Report Link
- The Retirement Security Report Interactive Scorecards Link
- The Retirement Security Report 2nd Edition PDF
- Hidden Education Funding Cuts Link
- ISSUE BRIEF | At Least One-Third of School Districts Have Experienced Funding Cuts Due to Growing Pension Costs Link
- ISSUE BRIEFS | Pension Challenges Facing Illinois Link
- ISSUE BRIEF | How Much Money Have the Top 25 Pension Funds Lost Since “Liberation Day”? Link
Featured Data
Download data for 230 state defined benefit retirement plans – including pension plans, guaranteed return plans, and hybrid plans.
- Includes data for 20+ years spanning 180 different retirement systems.
- Features variables noting plans’ funded status, investments, contributions, & more.
- These data include both state administered and municipally administered plans.
- For subsets of these data, please see “Special Datasets: Finance Datasets” below.
*Note: Many retirement plans have multiple classes or tiers of benefits, which is why the universe of Benefit Provisions looks larger than the Finance data.
Last updated: August 2024
Download data for 706 active retirement plans and classes of benefits, including pension plans, defined contribution plans, guaranteed return plans, and hybrid plans.
- Also includes topline information about several hundred legacy retirement plans and classes of benefits that are not open to new members, but still have active participants or beneficiaries.
- These data also include benefit provisions for state administered plans and municipally administered plans.
- For subsets of these data, please see “Special Datasets: Benefits Datasets” below.
*Note: Benefit data include all active classes or tiers of benefits and all legacy tiers that still have substantial members (either active or retired) or beneficiaries for which data are available.
Last updated: August 2024
Download data outlining the causes of unfunded liabilities for 145 state retirement plans over the past 20+ years.
- Data include detailed breakdowns of actuarial gain/loss data as reported by the plans to explain more than $1.3 trillion in unfunded liabilities through 2020.
- These data are currently limited to state-administered retirement systems.
*Note: Actuarial gain/loss data are limited in their reporting, which is why there are fewer plans covered here than in the Equable Finance Database.
Last updated: August 2024
Download the raw data from the sixth edition of State of Pensions.
