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South Dakota Retirement System

public plan · State of South Dakota · Sioux Falls, SD

ACTIVE
A
Pension Health Score
84/100
Funding Status99% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$14.1B
Total Assets
$14.3B
Total Liabilities
$184.5M
Unfunded Liability
73,946
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

South Dakota Retirement System is in excellent financial health at 99% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 99 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$14.1B$14.3B98.7%$832.3M
2024$13.4B$13.6B98.3%$987.4M
2023$13.4B$13.4B99.7%$1.0B
2022$12.5B$13.2B94.7%$841.7M
2021$11.9B$12.0B98.8%$925.1M