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Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association

public plan · State of Minnesota · Saint Paul, MN

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
77/100
Funding Status78% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$30.6B
Total Assets
$39.0B
Total Liabilities
$8.4B
Unfunded Liability
366,547
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association is in good financial health at 78% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 78 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$30.6B$39.0B78.4%$1.8B
2024$29.5B$36.6B80.7%$1.6B
2023$28.3B$36.5B77.4%$1.9B
2022$28.0B$31.9B87.6%$2.0B
2021$25.9B$36.1B71.8%$1.9B

Frequently Asked Questions

Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association is 78% funded, meaning it has 78 cents in assets for every dollar in future benefit obligations. This is below the 80% threshold actuaries consider healthy, and may require increased contributions.

Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association has 366,547 total participants, including 147,233 active employees and 219,314 retirees currently receiving benefits.

Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association 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.