Table 5a. Number and Membership of State and Local Government Employee-Retirement Systems by State: Fiscal Year 2003-04 Revised January 2006 (Thousand dollars) Total beneficiaries Membership receiving --------------------------------------- periodic State and type Number of Active Inactive benefit of government systmes Total members members payments United States 2,659 17,890,234 14,181,220 3,709,014 6,703,645 State 220 16,057,631 12,515,397 3,542,234 5,631,971 Local 2,439 1,832,603 1,665,823 166,780 1,071,674 County 163 532,299 473,818 58,481 243,259 Municipality 1,748 1,121,733 1,032,587 89,146 734,740 Township 404 37,863 34,535 3,328 20,745 Special District 110 54,310 51,853 2,457 29,486 School District 14 86,398 73,030 13,368 43,444 Alabama 12 255,573 229,534 26,039 90,570 Alaska 5 68,115 47,734 20,381 29,188 Arizona 7 381,682 243,036 138,646 90,465 Arkansas 38 138,658 118,996 19,662 44,283 California 59 2,115,457 1,734,200 381,257 852,399 Colorado 65 323,414 211,197 112,217 83,986 Connecticut 63 148,195 134,600 13,595 80,202 Delaware 6 42,049 40,934 1,115 21,539 District of Columbia 6 12,513 12,345 168 1,841 Florida 157 763,472 690,300 73,172 285,114 Georgia 31 538,677 390,383 148,294 123,489 Hawaii 1 67,074 62,573 4,501 32,297 Idaho 4 71,564 63,438 8,126 26,167 Illinois 371 938,508 634,769 303,739 343,020 Indiana 76 270,619 233,629 36,990 97,415 Iowa 12 269,188 165,661 103,527 81,996 Kansas 8 192,602 151,084 41,518 64,110 Kentucky 21 293,476 216,253 77,223 101,623 Louisiana 35 260,817 228,152 32,665 125,892 Maine 1 48,514 42,862 5,652 30,344 Maryland 13 276,651 227,458 49,193 125,806 Massachusetts 99 377,643 305,211 72,432 174,300 Michigan 141 485,046 454,951 30,095 261,127 Minnesota 146 499,580 292,499 207,081 135,896 Mississippi 4 272,219 157,197 115,022 65,364 Missouri 63 324,179 269,152 55,027 121,287 Montana 9 73,568 51,777 21,791 27,549 Nebraska 14 74,782 58,095 16,687 19,158 Nevada 2 85,311 77,610 7,701 27,312 New Hampshire 3 59,071 51,895 7,176 18,359 New Jersey 10 515,224 451,011 64,213 207,832 New Mexico 5 155,094 126,434 28,660 44,181 New York 15 1,265,263 1,141,448 123,815 711,645 North Carolina 10 534,613 465,076 69,537 171,028 North Dakota 12 34,700 29,007 5,693 11,747 Ohio 6 1,214,227 708,989 505,238 345,912 Oklahoma 12 161,093 148,581 12,512 79,197 Oregon 4 211,055 162,396 48,659 105,738 Pennsylvania 927 560,538 481,500 79,038 321,051 Rhode Island 11 45,161 40,465 4,696 23,999 South Carolina 6 361,017 215,675 145,342 98,987 South Dakota 4 49,575 36,413 13,162 17,525 Tennessee 14 256,417 235,182 21,235 105,665 Texas 49 1,396,125 1,247,839 148,286 360,248 Utah 6 120,471 95,461 25,010 33,262 Vermont 5 32,877 24,962 7,915 9,948 Virginia 14 471,499 375,898 95,601 142,426 Washington 27 253,177 222,379 30,798 121,167 West Virginia 41 71,994 57,534 14,460 47,323 Wisconsin 3 409,595 280,889 128,706 145,887 Wyoming 6 42,302 36,556 5,746 16,779 Note: The standard error is a measure of the variation among the estimates from all samples and thus is a measure of the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average results of all possible samples. The coefficient of variation (CV) is the estimated standard error expressed as a percent of the estimated totals or proportion. CV's for estimates in this table are displayed in table 5b.