Average 2014 pensions for California’s 20 independent county retirement systems
Transparent California now has 2014 pension data for virtually every major California government agency.
In addition to the 2014 data for CalPERS and CalSTRS, data is now available for many of the independent county pension plans throughout the state.
The below table ranks the county pension systems by the highest average full-career — retirees with at least 30 years of service — pension:
Average 2014 Full-Career Pension by County Pension System
| County | Average Full-Career Pension |
| Marin | $99,970** ($91,342) |
| Ventura | $95,180 |
| San Mateo* | $89,390 |
| Santa Barbara | $89,388 |
| San Bernardino | $89,199 |
| Contra Costa | $88,300 |
| Orange | $88,184 |
| Los Angeles | $85,130 |
| Alameda* | $81,893 |
| San Francisco | $76,927 |
| San Diego* | $75,681 |
| Sonoma | $73,948 |
| Kern | $72,527 |
| San Joaquin | $70,125 |
| Sacramento | $69,904 |
| Merced | $67,954 |
| Fresno | $67,075 |
| Stanislaus | $62,904 |
| Imperial | $61,154 |
| Tulare | $52,614 |
| *Full dataset not provided, average is from CAFR for 2005+ retirees. Mendocino County does not provide years of service data.
**When this report was first compiled, the Marin numbers included the value of health benefits. The average full-career pension is $91,342. |
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I live in Marin. I’m sick. Not surprised, just nauseated. Thanks for all you do, Robert.
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