Our instructor-led and self-paced online classes support you in all your CalPERS business. Our employer training classes will help you understand the importance of your business-related reporting responsibilities, how to use myCalPERS, and how to avoid late fees and administrative costs.

Log in to your myCalPERS business partner account, then select the Education tab to register. If you don't have myCalPERS access, contact your agency’s system access administrator.

Our educators can visit your agency to provide tailored education and training at no cost. Email your training request to our employer education team.

Instructor-Led Classes

Join our in-person and virtual classes with live instructors. You can learn retirement and health business rules or how to navigate and process transactions in myCalPERS.

Business Rules

Gain a better understanding of the laws and rules associated with your agency’s retirement and/or health contract. Our classes are employer-specific and customized to your employer type: school, public agency, or state.

• Business Rules (3 hours) — Discover valuable resources to assist you with your CalPERS-related business. Learn about reference guides, retirement contracts, membership, payroll, special compensation, retirement benefits, reporting responsibilities, and the CalPERS website.
  • Reference Guides
    • Public Agency & Schools Reference Guide (PDF, 2.9 MB)
    • State Reference Guide (PDF, 2.8 MB)
• Advanced Compensation* (1.5 hours) — Expand your compensation reporting knowledge with an in-depth look at the laws and rules associated with compensation reporting. Topics include pay schedule compliance, compensation limits and how to report, reporting scenarios and errors, and language templates for labor agreements.
• Advanced Membership* (1.5 hours) — Go beyond the basics of membership reporting with an in-depth look at the laws and rules associated with correctly enrolling and reporting your employees’ CalPERS membership. Topics include employment certification, membership qualifications, reciprocal self-certification, independent contractors, and post-retirement employment.
• Business Rules: Health (2.5 hours) — Understand your responsibilities as a CalPERS health benefits officer. Learn about the health plan options, eligibility and enrollment requirements, health benefits into retirement, health resources on the CalPERS website, health benefits guides, and reporting responsibilities.
  • Health Benefits Guides
    • Public Agency & Schools Health Benefits Guide (PDF, 1.2 MB)
    • State Health Benefits Guide (PDF, 1.3 MB)

*It’s recommended, but not required, you take the Business Rules class as a prerequisite for your agency type.

myCalPERS

Learn how to navigate and process transactions in myCalPERS. Attend an in-person class for a hands-on learning experience where you can complete transactions in a training environment. Or attend a virtual class and walk through the scenarios in our student guides with an instructor.

• myCalPERS Retirement Enrollment (2 hours) — Verify membership status, add or change appointments for active employees and retired annuitants, and reconcile and maintain appointment statuses.
  • Student Guide - myCalPERS Retirement Enrollment (PDF, 2.08 MB)
• myCalPERS Payroll Reporting (2.5 hours) — Use the online-data-entry method to create an earned period report, add and maintain records, process a report, and reconcile missing payroll.
  • Student Guide - myCalPERS Payroll Reporting (PDF, 2.50 MB)
• myCalPERS Payroll Adjustments (2.5 hours) — Use the online-data-entry method to report retroactive payroll records and make corrections.
  • Student Guide - myCalPERS Payroll Adjustments (PDF, 2.1 MB)
• myCalPERS Health Enrollment (3 hours) — Process new health enrollments and changes, rescind a transaction, review health enrollment details, add a dependent’s Social Security number, and run health reports.
  • Student Guide - myCalPERS Health Enrollment (PDF, 2.1 MB)
  • Supplemental Material - myCalPERS Health Aid: Health Event Types and Reasons for Employers (PDF)
• myCalPERS Employer Reports (Cognos) (1.5 hours) — Run reports and use the Cognos tools in myCalPERS.
  • Student Guide - myCalPERS Employer Reports (Cognos) (PDF)
• myCalPERS System Access Administration (2 hours) — Learn the roles and responsibilities of a myCalPERS system access administrator, add and maintain your agency's contacts and system users, and maintain your agency's information.
  • Student Guide - myCalPERS System Access Administration (PDF, 1.14 MB)

Self-Paced Online Classes

Take our online classes available 24 hours a day. We offer classes to help you understand retirement and health business rules, navigate myCalPERS, and perform transactions.

Business Rules

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