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Phoenix Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Phoenix · Tucson, AZ

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
70/100
Funding Status82% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$2.0B
Total Assets
$2.5B
Total Liabilities
$454.6M
Unfunded Liability
39,247
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Phoenix Municipal Employees Retirement System is in good financial health at 82% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 82 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$2.0B$2.5B81.7%$120.0M
2024$1.9B$2.5B78.2%$123.1M
2023$1.9B$2.6B73.5%$124.4M
2022$1.8B$2.2B80.3%$149.5M
2021$1.7B$2.0B85.4%$126.2M