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Provides you with a pension or guaranteed monthly payments for life. Available to employees hired before 1/1/19 and certain law enforcement and security positions after.
Provides you with the option to choose your own investments and assume the risk. Available to most employees hired after 1/1/19.
Provides you with a combined retirement benefit, which includes a pension and investment plan.
Default retirement plan for most employees hired after 1/1/19.
Provides you with a voluntary supplemental investment
plan with tax deferred savings.
Available to most active employees.
Established in 1923, the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System is one of the nation's oldest and largest statewide retirement plans for public employees. Our mission is to prepare our members and participants to achieve financial success and security in retirement. We are proud to serve you and thank you for your work to make Pennsylvania great.
New members can use this website to learn about your retirement benefit, particularly some choices you need to make when you're first hired. Active members can run estimates to see how your retirement benefit grows as your years of service and salary change. Members who are getting ready to retire can read about payment options and get a check list for your counseling session. Retired members can get duplicate tax forms and click through to the Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund - the PEBTF - for more about your health care.
Estimate your future retirement benefit or the federal tax withholding from your current pension payments.
Provide your e-mail address to get member updates, notice of board meetings, press releases, and more.
Contact SERS with questions about your specific plan or fill out our contact form for general questions.
Penn SERS 2025 Financial Reports Available
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System today announced the release of its 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the calendar year ended Dec. 31, 2025.
06/16/2026
Penn SERS Maintains Current Investment Return Assumption
Approves $100 Million in New Investments
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Board chose to maintain the pension fund’s current 6.875% investment return assumption and approved $100 million in new investments.
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Board, meeting here today, received highlights from the system’s 2025 actuarial valuation showing a more than half- billion-dollar decrease in the pension fund’s unfunded liability and strong investment gains over the past ten years to be shared between more than 67,000 members and the commonwealth’s employing agencies, boards, and commissions.
