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Dec 12, 2022 · Understanding Your Benefit Factor and Final Compensation. Your benefit factor is the percentage of pay to which you are entitled for each year of service. It’s determined by your age at retirement and the retirement formula based on your membership date with each employer.
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Understanding Your Retirement Formula. Your benefit factor,...
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If you don’t know your retirement formula (or formulas from your past employment), you can log in to your myCalPERSaccount to see your formula on the home page under CalPERS Account Summary. You can also ask your employer. Your employer can also tell you if you have a 12-month or 36-month final compensation period.
Once you know your retirement formula, go to our Benefit Factor Charts webpage to select the chart for your formula (you can view, print, or save your PDF document). You’ll see how your benefit factor increases for each quarter year of age, and the percentage of final compensation you will receive. If you have multiple retirement formulas from diff...
Do you want a detailed retirement estimate that uses data your employer already reported to CalPERS? Then log in to your myCalPERSaccount to estimate your pension amount for different retirement options. You can generate a variety of scenarios and save them in myCalPERS for future reference.
Understanding Your Retirement Formula. Your benefit factor, also known as age factor, is the percentage of pay to which you are entitled for each year of service. It is determined by your age at retirement and the retirement formula that applies to your classification.
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Your benefit factor, also known as age factor, is the percentage of pay to which you are entitled for each year of service. It is determined by your age at retirement and the retirement formula that applies to your classification. Log in to your myCalPERS account at my.calpers.ca.gov for information on determining which formula applies to you.
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We illustrate the calculation of retirement benefits using two examples, labeled case A and case B. In each case, the worker retires in 2024. Case A, born in 1962, retires at age 62. Case B, born in 1958, retires at his normal (or full) retirement age.
YearCase A, Born In 1962(nominal Earnings)Case A, Born In 1962(indexing Factor)Case A, Born In 1962(indexed Earnings)1984$15,0863.9538$59,647198515,7793.792259,838198616,2983.682960,024198717,3923.462160,214The Social Security benefits formula is used to calculate your primary insurance amount. The formula is based on your average monthly earnings over your 35 highest-earning years,...
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How is my benefit calculated? Benefits are based on a three-part formula that uses service credit, benefit factor (also known as the multiplier), and average final compensation. We encourage you to take a retirement planning class to understand each element.