§ 32328 Prior Service Credit Transfer

• •If you worked as a forester, firewarden, or firefighter before and want to get credit for that time in this pension system, you might need to pay extra money.
• •The extra money you need to pay is 2% of all the salary you earned during that past work time.
• •If you already have some money saved in another pension system for that past work, it can be moved to this new pension system to help cover the cost.

John worked as a firefighter for 5 years in another state and earned $50,000 each year. Now he wants to get credit for that time in California’s pension system.

John needs to pay 2% of his total past salary ($250,000) to get credit for those 5 years. That means he has to pay $5,000. If he already has $2,000 saved in another pension for that time, he only needs to pay $3,000 more.