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Chesapeake Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Chesapeake · Virginia Beach, VA

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
77/100
Funding Status72% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$5.0B
Total Assets
$6.9B
Total Liabilities
$1.9B
Unfunded Liability
10,633
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Chesapeake Municipal Employees 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$5.0B$6.9B72.0%$225.2M
2024$4.8B$6.3B76.3%$207.8M
2023$4.7B$6.7B70.6%$191.2M
2022$4.5B$6.1B74.8%$170.6M
2021$4.1B$6.6B63.1%$235.9M