Last week, the Public Retirement Research Lab (PRRL) released The State of Public-Sector DC Plans: 2021. The report includes commentary and graphic representation of public-sector DC plan account balances, contributions, loans, and asset allocations derived from the PRRL Database.

The PRRL Database is the repository for plan- and participant-level retirement plan data collected by the PRRL from public plan sponsors from their recordkeepers. The PRRL Database contains year-end 2021 data for 267 457(b), 401(a), 403(b), 401(k), and other defined contribution plans; more than 2.5 million state, county, city, and subdivision employees; and $170 billion in assets.