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Los Angeles Fire & Police Pensions

public plan · City of Los Angeles · San Diego, CA

ACTIVE
A
Pension Health Score
87/100
Funding Status89% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$31.6B
Total Assets
$35.7B
Total Liabilities
$4.1B
Unfunded Liability
26,763
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Los Angeles Fire & Police Pensions is in excellent financial health at 89% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 89 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$31.6B$35.7B88.6%$1.4B
2024$30.7B$32.8B93.5%$1.4B
2023$28.6B$33.5B85.3%$1.6B
2022$29.1B$30.2B96.4%$1.4B
2021$26.2B$31.4B83.4%$1.7B

Frequently Asked Questions

Los Angeles Fire & Police Pensions is 89% funded, meaning it has 89 cents in assets for every dollar in future benefit obligations. This is considered healthy by actuarial standards.

Los Angeles Fire & Police Pensions has 26,763 total participants, including 10,239 active employees and 16,524 retirees currently receiving benefits.

Los Angeles Fire & Police Pensions 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.