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Tulsa Municipal Employees Retirement System

public plan · City of Tulsa · Tulsa, OK

ACTIVE
B
Pension Health Score
67/100
Funding Status67% Funded
0%80% threshold100%
$1.1B
Total Assets
$1.6B
Total Liabilities
$520.5M
Unfunded Liability
24,828
Participants

Funding History

What This Means for You

Tulsa Municipal Employees Retirement System 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$1.1B$1.6B67.1%$76.2M
2024$1.1B$1.7B61.8%$63.2M
2023$974.1M$1.3B73.1%$63.7M
2022$927.3M$1.2B74.8%$63.5M
2021$911.0M$1.4B63.6%$59.6M

Frequently Asked Questions

Tulsa Municipal Employees Retirement System 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.

Tulsa Municipal Employees Retirement System has 24,828 total participants, including 10,495 active employees and 14,333 retirees currently receiving benefits.

Tulsa Municipal 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.