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Learn more about your retirement benefits from the comfort of your home. Your CalSTRS retirement benefit has two built-in protections against inflation, but it’s important to leverage your assets and income to ensure your quality of living is as high in the future as it is today.
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CalSTRS provides retirement benefits to California's public school educators and their beneficiaries. As an educator you're busy helping your students build their future. It's just as important to focus on yours, even early in your career. As a vested CalSTRS member you'll receive a lifetime monthly benefit when you retire.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System was established by law in 1913 to provide retirement benefits to California’s public school educators from prekindergarten through community college. Today, CalSTRS is the largest educator-only pension fund in the world, and the second largest pension fund in the U.S.
Our mission: Securing the financial future and sustaining the trust of California’s educators.
The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) provides retirement, disability and survivor benefits for California's 965,000 prekindergarten through community college educators and their families. [1]
CalSTRS is the largest teachers’ retirement system and second largest public pension fund in the nation. CalSTRS provides retirement, disability and survivor benefits to California’s public school educators and their families.
CalSTRS is a traditional defined benefit plan that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for California public school educators. Your retirement benefit is based on a formula set by law, so it is important to understand how your benefit is calculated.
