Almost 6,000 government employees began receiving pension benefits last year from the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, according to a pension database maintained by The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Search the database for retired state employees' pensions. ... The data shows 43,856 former employees receiving pensions as of 2011, with 469 getting more than $100,000 annually.

Under the state’s Deferred Retirement Option Program, longtime employees agree to retire within five years while their pension money is put in an investment account guaranteed to make 6.5 per… ...

The nation's largest public pension fund says it will post nearly half a million pensioners' data online in an effort to be transparent while providing retirees with better protection.

The database now includes the names of 143,927 individuals receiving retirement benefits, including those who retired last year plus 162 former employees who retired on Jan. 1, 2023.