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Fairfax County Employees Retirement Fund

public plan · Fairfax County · Little Rock, AR

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
65/100
Funding Status66% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$603.5M
Total Assets
$914.4M
Total Liabilities
$310.9M
Unfunded Liability
20,136
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Fairfax County Employees Retirement Fund is in good financial health at 66% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 66 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$603.5M$914.4M66.0%$20.0M
2024$572.9M$795.6M72.0%$21.4M
2023$556.0M$891.1M62.4%$27.4M
2022$521.2M$715.0M72.9%$25.7M
2021$530.2M$835.0M63.5%$24.8M

Frequently Asked Questions

Fairfax County Employees Retirement Fund is 66% funded, meaning it has 66 cents in assets for every dollar in future benefit obligations. This is below the 80% threshold actuaries consider healthy, and may require increased contributions.

Fairfax County Employees Retirement Fund has 20,136 total participants, including 10,758 active employees and 9,378 retirees currently receiving benefits.

Fairfax County Employees Retirement Fund is not covered by the PBGC. Benefits depend entirely on the plan's assets and the sponsor's ability to fund it.

The Pension Health Score (0-100, A-F) measures a pension plan's financial strength based on funding ratio (50%), funding trend over 3 years (30%), and PBGC risk level (20%). Higher scores indicate more secure retirement benefits.

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Pension Health Score is calculated from funding ratio, 3-year funding trend, and PBGC risk classification.