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San Diego City Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of San Diego · San Jose, CA

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
76/100
Funding Status72% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$9.9B
Total Assets
$13.7B
Total Liabilities
$3.8B
Unfunded Liability
21,830
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

San Diego City Employees Retirement System is in good financial health at 72% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 72 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$9.9B$13.7B72.1%$583.5M
2024$9.7B$13.3B73.0%$583.6M
2023$9.5B$14.1B67.3%$621.4M
2022$8.5B$11.7B72.8%$602.8M
2021$8.2B$12.8B64.4%$686.7M