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Planning to work after retirement? Know these three rules
March 3, 2025
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The ACSA Member Assistance & Legal Support Team regularly receives inquiries from our members regarding their ability to work after retiring.
Although our team doesn’t pretend to be STRS experts in answering these questions, we are offering a few tips from the CalSTRS document “Working After Retirement”:
  1. You can take a job outside the California public school system without having an earnings limitation.
  2. You must be retired for 180 days if you plan to work in the public school system.
  3. The 2024-25 earnings limit is $74,733. Any amount over this will be deducted dollar for dollar. If you work for a third-party employer while working in a school system, you may be excluded from the earnings limit with one caveat: The activities performed are not normally performed by employees of a CalSTRS employer and the limit is 24 months. Read Education Code section 22119.5 (b) to determine what those Creditable Service activities are.
For more information, refer to the CalSTRS document “Working After Retirement” and also talk to a STRS counselor.