SpendingDepartmentsCity Employees' Retirement System (LACERS)
What does the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System cost?
This is one of the City's two retirement systems. Its budget is adopted by its own board and consists mostly of pension benefits paid from its trust funds, which are not City operating costs. The City's yearly contributions to it are shown on the obligations page. This page shows its own staff payroll: in pay year 2025 it had 190 full-time employees with active status, and paid $25.5M to everyone on its payroll.
People and pay
Pay year 2025, the most recent complete calendar year in the Controller's payroll data, with 2024 for comparison.
| Measure | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time employees with active status | 198 | 190 |
| Everyone paid during the year | 278 | 316 |
| Total pay | $24.4M | $25.5M |
| Overtime pay | $390.5K | $493.4K |
| Pay per full-time employee | $92,943 | $108,361 |
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“Full-time employees with active status” counts distinct people whose full-time job was active when the Controller extracted the data, the measure the payroll page uses. “Everyone paid” also counts part-time, seasonal and per-event workers and people who left during the year. Total and overtime pay cover everyone paid. “Pay per full-time employee” is those employees' total pay divided by their number. Pay excludes the City's pension and benefit contributions.