As a PSERS member, you will join over a half million fellow public school employees who are referred to as members to PSERS. You will contribute to your own personal PSERS pension account and profit from having a safe, secure, and guaranteed benefit payment(s) from one of the largest public pension plans in the nation.
From the first day of employment, all employees are automatically enrolled in the Public School Employee Retirement System (PSERS) defined benefit (DB) pension program. Employees scheduled to work 25 hours or more a week are considered members of PSERS from day one of employment and are required to contribute to the pension. Although pension contributions are deducted, employees paid hourly or daily (per diem) are not considered members of PSERS until they work 500 hours (hourly employees) or 180 days (daily/per diem employees) in one school year. Members are not permitted to waive pension enrollment.