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Columbus Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Columbus · Cincinnati, OH

ACTIVE
A
Pension Health Score
91/100
Funding Status88% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$4.2B
Total Assets
$4.8B
Total Liabilities
$561.2M
Unfunded Liability
39,465
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Columbus Municipal Employees Retirement System is in excellent financial health at 88% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 88 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$4.2B$4.8B88.3%$234.3M
2024$4.0B$4.3B93.0%$214.5M
2023$4.0B$4.3B92.6%$230.3M
2022$3.9B$5.1B76.2%$217.8M
2021$3.6B$4.5B80.7%$209.0M