There are several factors used to determine your retirement benefit. First we consider your length of service. Then we calculate your high-five average salary, using your highest five years of salary. We take your years and months of service and convert these to a percentage using a benefit multiplier, also known as a benefit formula.

You receive 3% for each year of service. For example, if you have 25 years of service, you would receive 75% of your high five salary.

Example - how retirement benefits are calculated using multiplier

 

The assumptions

  Age at retirement

  55

  Allowable service

  25 years

  Average monthly salary

  $5,000

  Benefit payment option

  Single-Life

The calculation

   25 years x 3% = 75%

   $5,000 (your average monthly salary)
      X 75%

   $3,750 per month

Retirement age

Full retirement age is 55 (assuming you are vested). If you retire at age 55 or older, there is no reduction in your monthly benefit. We call this an unreduced benefit.

If you retire before age 55, your monthly benefit is reduced by an early retirement factor.
 

For more detail

Contact MSRS at 1-800-657-5757, or see the State Patrol Retirement Handbook (pdf).