KPERS Funding




Your Benefit is Secure.
KPERS is a prefunded system made up of contributions from you, your employer and investment income. You put part of every paycheck into the Retirement System. And your employer contributes, too. Then we invest the money to pay you a monthly benefit when you retire.


More than $1 billion in contributions comes in each year. That's about enough to cover the $1 billion cost of annual benefits. And then there's investment income. Over time, investments have paid for almost half of members' benefits.
When you're ready to retire, your benefit will be here.