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Seattle Police Pension Fund

public plan · City of Seattle · Tacoma, WA

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
68/100
Funding Status67% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$1.3B
Total Assets
$1.9B
Total Liabilities
$636.2M
Unfunded Liability
7,334
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Seattle Police Pension Fund is in good financial health at 67% funded. This means for every dollar the plan owes in future benefits, it has 67 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$1.3B$1.9B67.2%$41.9M
2024$1.2B$1.9B66.0%$52.2M
2023$1.2B$1.9B61.8%$56.3M
2022$1.1B$1.5B73.3%$50.0M
2021$1.1B$1.8B62.9%$57.0M

Frequently Asked Questions

Seattle Police Pension Fund is 67% funded, meaning it has 67 cents in assets for every dollar in future benefit obligations. This is below the 80% threshold actuaries consider healthy, and may require increased contributions.

Seattle Police Pension Fund has 7,334 total participants, including 3,476 active employees and 3,858 retirees currently receiving benefits.

Seattle Police Pension 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.