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Providence Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Providence · Cranston, RI

ACTIVE
A
Pension Health Score
83/100
Funding Status95% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$1.7B
Total Assets
$1.8B
Total Liabilities
$84.1M
Unfunded Liability
14,478
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Providence Municipal Employees Retirement System is in excellent financial health at 95% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 95 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$1.7B$1.8B95.3%$105.7M
2024$1.6B$1.7B96.1%$91.7M
2023$1.6B$1.7B97.4%$116.6M
2022$1.5B$1.5B97.4%$107.6M
2021$1.5B$1.6B94.9%$119.4M