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Orange County Employees Retirement System

public plan · Orange County · San Diego, CA

ACTIVE
A
Pension Health Score
80/100
Funding Status74% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$20.1B
Total Assets
$27.3B
Total Liabilities
$7.2B
Unfunded Liability
45,564
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Orange County Employees Retirement System is in excellent financial health at 74% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 74 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$20.1B$27.3B73.6%$612.4M
2024$19.2B$25.7B74.8%$654.9M
2023$18.6B$26.5B70.2%$631.9M
2022$17.9B$25.4B70.6%$651.3M
2021$16.8B$26.4B63.7%$667.3M