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Arkansas Teacher Retirement System

public plan · State of Arkansas · Fort Smith, AR

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
68/100
Funding Status72% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$16.5B
Total Assets
$23.0B
Total Liabilities
$6.5B
Unfunded Liability
112,410
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System is in good financial health at 72% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 72 cents in assets to cover it. As a public pension, benefits are typically backed by the taxing authority of the sponsoring government. Participants in this plan have relatively low risk of benefit reductions.

Year-by-Year Funding

YearAssetsLiabilitiesFunding RatioContributions
2025$16.5B$23.0B71.6%$499.1M
2024$15.8B$22.4B70.4%$622.7M
2023$15.6B$24.1B64.6%$526.6M
2022$14.6B$20.8B70.5%$636.4M
2021$14.0B$20.3B69.0%$668.0M