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Baltimore Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Baltimore · Rockville, MD

ACTIVE
A
Pension Health Score
81/100
Funding Status89% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$1.7B
Total Assets
$1.9B
Total Liabilities
$214.3M
Unfunded Liability
10,725
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Baltimore Municipal Employees Retirement System is in excellent financial health at 89% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 89 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$1.7B$1.9B88.9%$93.0M
2024$1.7B$1.9B87.3%$130.1M
2023$1.6B$1.6B96.3%$103.1M
2022$1.5B$1.7B88.5%$120.8M
2021$1.4B$1.6B88.1%$113.1M