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Rochester Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Rochester · Rochester, NY

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
75/100
Funding Status87% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$1.9B
Total Assets
$2.2B
Total Liabilities
$291.8M
Unfunded Liability
5,730
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Rochester Municipal Employees Retirement System is in good financial health at 87% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 87 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$1.9B$2.2B86.7%$53.9M
2024$1.8B$2.0B91.0%$67.8M
2023$1.8B$2.1B84.0%$68.3M
2022$1.7B$2.1B83.8%$61.2M
2021$1.6B$1.8B89.1%$68.2M