Table 5. Number and Membership of State and Local Public-Employee Retirement System by State Fiscal Year 2007 Source: 2007 Annual Survey of Public-Employee Retirement Systems. Data users who create their own estimates using data from this report should cite the U.S. Census Bureau as the source of the original data only. The data in this table are based on information from public records and contain no confidential data. Although the data in this table come from a census of retirement systems and are not subject to sampling error, the census results do contain nonsampling error. Additional information on nonsampling error, and response rates may be found at http://www2.census.gov/govs/retire/2007surveymeth.pdf. Total beneficiaries Membership receiving Number -------------------------------------------------- periodic State and level of Active Inactive benefit of government systems Total members members payments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 2,547 18,617,006 14,451,204 4,165,802 7,505,074 State 218 16,790,948 12,820,565 3,970,383 6,381,051 Local 2,329 1,826,058 1,630,639 195,419 1,124,023 County 158 558,374 483,437 74,937 266,154 Municipality 1,660 1,106,975 1,001,970 105,005 765,381 Township 394 40,825 37,082 3,743 22,483 Special District 106 49,640 46,065 3,575 26,646 School District 11 70,244 62,085 8,159 43,359 Alabama 11 267,414 239,708 27,706 106,984 Alaska 5 53,344 45,301 8,043 42,928 Arizona 6 482,799 269,873 212,926 105,396 Arkansas 36 158,054 132,279 25,775 52,383 California 59 2,265,837 1,760,499 505,338 1,014,219 Colorado 60 359,661 217,459 142,202 97,765 Connecticut 61 148,072 135,312 12,760 88,642 Delaware 6 45,672 44,287 1,385 23,656 District of Columbia 6 12,572 11,774 798 3,082 Florida 162 731,307 646,122 85,185 296,086 Georgia 31 590,264 386,291 203,973 144,356 Hawaii 1 70,805 65,251 5,554 33,118 Idaho 4 75,535 65,857 9,678 29,745 Illinois 370 951,317 628,038 323,279 380,119 Indiana 71 278,874 229,440 49,434 106,702 Iowa 9 232,802 170,160 62,642 89,386 Kansas 7 184,271 146,411 37,860 67,924 Kentucky 21 320,238 225,461 94,777 119,672 Louisiana 34 293,963 219,150 74,813 141,450 Maine 1 59,912 52,060 7,852 33,586 Maryland 13 292,394 237,124 55,270 140,707 Massachusetts 100 375,593 314,291 61,302 181,703 Michigan 138 448,968 416,275 32,693 293,425 Minnesota 89 509,687 296,417 213,270 155,458 Mississippi 4 286,856 163,617 123,239 73,708 Missouri 62 325,222 272,372 52,850 136,229 Montana 9 72,384 51,644 20,740 30,088 Nebraska 13 85,275 62,557 22,718 22,158 Nevada 2 114,759 103,755 11,004 35,748 New Hampshire 4 57,169 52,363 4,806 21,903 New Jersey 10 532,455 468,966 63,489 230,399 New Mexico 5 152,364 119,182 33,182 52,784 New York 10 1,323,517 1,183,660 139,857 750,709 North Carolina 8 582,236 497,672 84,564 194,783 North Dakota 12 34,380 29,738 4,642 13,253 Ohio 6 1,178,884 695,321 483,563 373,484 Oklahoma 12 178,655 158,049 20,606 85,224 Oregon 2 218,720 166,161 52,559 106,061 Pennsylvania 903 582,678 495,263 87,415 346,740 Rhode Island 13 47,669 40,729 6,940 27,992 South Carolina 6 371,627 209,571 162,056 108,013 South Dakota 4 52,403 38,348 14,055 19,261 Tennessee 14 272,143 243,252 28,891 119,585 Texas 48 1,504,086 1,296,019 208,067 444,284 Utah 6 129,983 99,589 30,394 38,796 Vermont 5 33,701 26,018 7,683 11,266 Virginia 14 426,063 387,230 38,833 160,034 Washington 24 303,191 260,713 42,478 130,269 West Virginia 41 73,833 57,538 16,295 49,796 Wisconsin 3 425,392 280,115 145,277 155,227 Wyoming 6 42,006 36,922 5,084 18,788 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Created: September 11, 2009 Data Last Revised: September 29, 2011