Colorado PERA’s Highest Average Salary (HAS) percentage tables show you, based on your age and years of service at retirement, what percentage of your HAS will be used to calculate your monthly retirement benefit. Use the chart below to determine which table applies to you.
The shaded areas on the tables indicate reduced service retirement percentages. The percentages in the shaded areas on tables 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, and 13 ensure that, as of the effective date of retirement, your reduced service retirement benefit is the actuarial equivalent of your full service retirement benefit. These percentages are subject to change based on actuarial experience.
| Benefit Structure | Membership Date | 5 Years of Service Credit as of January 1, 2011 |
Retirement Eligibility | Table |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PERA | On or before June 30, 2005 |
Yes | Eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 1 |
| PERA | On or before June 30, 2005 |
Yes | Not eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 2 |
| PERA | Between July 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006 |
Yes | Eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 3 |
| PERA | Between July 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006 |
Yes | Not eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 4 |
| PERA | Between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2010 |
N/A | Eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 5 |
| PERA | Between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2010 |
N/A | Not eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 6 |
| PERA | On or before December 31, 2006 |
No | N/A | Table 6 |
| PERA | On or after January 1, 2011 |
N/A | N/A | Table 7 |
| DPS | On or before June 30, 2005 |
Yes | Eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 8 |
| DPS | Between July 1, 2005, and December 31, 2009 |
Yes | Eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 9 |
| DPS | On or before December 31, 2009 |
Yes | Not eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 10 |
| DPS | On or before December 31, 2009 |
No | N/A | Table 11 |
| State Troopers/ CBI Agents |
N/A | N/A | Eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 12 |
| State Troopers/ CBI Agents |
N/A | N/A | Not eligible January 1, 2011 |
Table 13 |