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Using the “Échantillon Inter-régimes des Retraités” (EIR) 2008 and 2012 panel data, we calculate retirees’ pension wealth (consumed and residual) at an aggregate level and provide in-depth results by type of pension scheme and by management fund. We put an emphasis on direct pensions already perceived by retirees and to be paid in the future, without taking into account current contributors’ future retirement. We find that overall pension wealth is not very sensitive to the discount rate, but this result does not hold if we concentrate on pension wealth still to be paid. From this point of view, it must be noted that some of the funds have a high proportion of pension still to be paid. Moreover, whatever the type of pension wealth calculated, the results show a rapid increase from 2008 to 2012 (except for the basic scheme for farmers). Finally, spread indicators and the Gini index of pension wealth are relatively higher than those found in the distribution of labor income by other studies. We find that there are more inequalities in the private sector than in the public, particularly in the private sector for complementary pension schemes.