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Kansas Public Employee
Retirement System

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Our Mission

The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System in its fiduciary capacity, exists to deliver retirement, disability and survivor benefits to its members and their beneficiaries.

Who We Are

KPERS administers three statewide retirement benefit plans:

  • Kansas Public Employee Retirement System
  • Kansas Police and Firemen's Retirement System
  • Kansas Retirement System for Judges

The Retirement System has more than 346,000 members, including active, inactive and retired members. We manage about $28 billion in assets for our members. The System also oversees KPERS 457, the state’s voluntary 457(b) deferred compensation savings plan, which has plan assets in excess of $1.5 billion.

Learn more about what we do here.

Affiliated Employers

The Retirement System helps virtually all Kansas public employers to offer death, disability and retirement benefits.

Retirement System Affiliated Employers

KPERS 457 Affiliated Employers: State | Local


Kansas public employers apply to provide KPERS benefits.

If you have any questions, email [email protected] or call 888-275-5737.

How KPERS Works

3 gear icons with text inside that reads: Legilature defines benefits and funding, Members & Employers contribute to KPERS and KPERS invests the money & pays benefits

153,948 Active Members

153,948 Active Members Bar Graphic: 87,148 School, 37,703 Local, 20,527 State, 8,284 KP&F, 286 Judges

Contributions & Benefits Paid

Money In: 1.6 billion total annual contributions FY 2023 + 1.7 Billion Annual Investment Income Money Out: 2.1 Billion total benefit payments paid FY 2023

KPERS Executive Director Alan Conroy Headshot KPERS Executive Director Alan Conroy Headshot

Alan Conroy KPERS Executive Director

Alan Conroy is KPERS’ Executive Director and brings over 40 years of experience in state government, fiscal analysis and public pension policy. He has been KPERS’ Executive Director since 2012.

Before KPERS, Conroy served for 10 years as director of the Kansas Legislative Research Department, the non-partisan research and fiscal agency for the Kansas Legislature. He was with Legislative Research in various positions since 1983. For 20 of those years, he provided staff support for the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments and Benefits, the legislative committee charged with ongoing KPERS oversight. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Governor’s Division of the Budget.

He received a Master of Arts in political science with an emphasis in public administration from Wichita State University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of South Dakota.

“As fiduciaries, everything we do at the Retirement System is about fulfilling a promise to Kansas public servants. KPERS is a team of caring people delivering dependable benefits and striving to be a trusted partner for public employees and their employers. It is an honor to lead this organization. We have more than a job to do. We have a mission.”

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