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Nevada Public Employees Retirement System

public plan · State of Nevada · Reno, NV

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
78/100
Funding Status73% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$52.5B
Total Assets
$71.6B
Total Liabilities
$19.0B
Unfunded Liability
203,574
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Nevada Public Employees Retirement System is in good financial health at 73% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 73 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$52.5B$71.6B73.4%$3.8B
2024$49.8B$72.4B68.8%$3.4B
2023$48.1B$63.2B76.0%$4.1B
2022$46.2B$56.8B81.4%$3.4B
2021$43.9B$68.3B64.3%$3.5B

Frequently Asked Questions

Nevada Public Employees Retirement System is 73% funded, meaning it has 73 cents in assets for every dollar in future benefit obligations. This is below the 80% threshold actuaries consider healthy, and may require increased contributions.

Nevada Public Employees Retirement System has 203,574 total participants, including 103,445 active employees and 100,129 retirees currently receiving benefits.

Nevada Public Employees Retirement System 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.