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Kansas Public Employees Retirement System

public plan · State of Kansas · Overland Park, KS

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
76/100
Funding Status71% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$23.6B
Total Assets
$33.3B
Total Liabilities
$9.7B
Unfunded Liability
335,327
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Kansas Public Employees Retirement System is in good financial health at 71% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 71 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$23.6B$33.3B70.8%$1.1B
2024$22.8B$33.5B68.1%$1.4B
2023$21.9B$33.7B64.9%$1.1B
2022$20.4B$34.2B59.7%$1.2B
2021$19.4B$31.1B62.6%$973.4M