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Louisville Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Louisville · Frankfort, KY

ACTIVE
A
Pension Health Score
91/100
Funding Status81% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$1.5B
Total Assets
$1.8B
Total Liabilities
$343.7M
Unfunded Liability
34,237
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Louisville Municipal Employees Retirement System is in excellent financial health at 81% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 81 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$1.5B$1.8B81.0%$92.8M
2024$1.4B$1.8B80.5%$121.8M
2023$1.4B$1.6B86.0%$114.9M
2022$1.3B$1.7B78.7%$91.5M
2021$1.3B$1.9B68.5%$83.4M