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 Accrual rate is the fraction used to express the rate of build-up of a final salary pension scheme fund. Sixtieths and eightieths are the most commonly found rates. Therefore, if you are a member of a sixtieth scheme, the accrual rate is 1/60th of your final salary per year. On this basis if you were a member of the scheme for forty years you would be entitled to 40/60ths or two-thirds of your final salary as a pension. Due to the prohibitive costs of final salary pension schemes, increasing numbers of employers are switching to money purchase schemes.