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CalPERS employees earn $65,500 annually on average, or $31 per hour, which is 7% higher than the national salary average of $61,000 per year. According to our data, the highest paying job at CalPERS is a Pension Systems Resumption at $96,000 annually while the lowest paying job at CalPERS is a Student Assistant at $28,000 annually.
In 2013, the average Teachers' Retirement System pension was 69.4 percent of the average pay for those still working, according to the system's annual comprehensive financial report. Judges have the highest average salary -- $183,998 -- and highest average pension -- $105,341. The gap between average pay and average pension is widest within retirement systems with more transient employees. The 108,814 local government employees receiving IMRF benefits in 2013 averaged pensions of $13,243. That was 34.8 percent of the system's $38,059 average salary. However, that's still a big change from a decade ago when the average IMRF pension was 27.9 percent of the average salary of workers paying into the system.