Your CalSTRS lifetime monthly retirement benefit is an excellent start. You’ll likely need more to meet your retirement income goal. Join us to better understand your CalSTRS retirement benefit, why it’s important to start saving now and what resources we have to help you along the way.

Learn about your CalSTRS benefits and services with the help of a CalSTRS benefits specialist in a secure, group session.

Saving for retirement may seem far from your mind right now, but supplemental savings are essential to ensuring you have enough money to retire comfortably. Due to compound interest, saving earlier in your career is far more valuable than saving later. CalSTRS Pension2® works in tandem with your Defined Benefit Program and Defined Benefit Supplement accounts. Join this online workshop to see why saving now with Pension2 is important.

Learn more about this first step in your life journey with CalSTRS. Receive an overview of the CalSTRS hybrid retirement system, your survivor and disability benefits, how your benefit will be calculated, ways you can increase your benefit and other CalSTRS resources available to you.

A spending plan gives you control of your money, keeps you focused on your financial goals, and helps you organize your expenses, debt and savings. Spend some time learning how to create a spending plan, understand your credit report, build and keep good credit, and manage your debt. You’ll also get worksheets, strategies for creating a spending plan, and more.

Now that you’ve begun your career as a California educator, it’s a good time to start learning about—and saving for—retirement. As a CalSTRS member, you have access to valuable tools and resources designed specifically for early career educators. Learn more about your retirement benefits, including survivor and disability benefits, why it’s important to check your Retirement Progress Report each year and whether you’re eligible to purchase service credit.

As you plan for your future, remember you have choices for protecting your loved ones whether your death occurs before or after you retire. Learn about your lifetime benefit, the one-time death benefit and the default benefits available to you as a CalSTRS Defined Benefit Program member. Understand the choices you have, when to make those choices and how those choices will affect your loved ones.