| Table 5. Number and Membership of State Public |
| Employee Retirement Systems 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. |
| Additional information on sampling error, nonsampling error, and response rates may be |
| found at http://www.census.gov/govs/retire/how_data_collected.html. |
| State and level of government | Number of systems |
Membership | Total beneficiaries receiving periodic benefit payments |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Active members |
Inactive members |
|||
| United States | 222 | 16,790,948 | 12,820,565 | 3,970,383 | 6,477,038 |
| Alabama | 4 | 253,989 | 226,527 | 27,462 | 101,808 |
| Alaska | 4 | 53,212 | 45,181 | 8,031 | 42,300 |
| Arizona | 4 | 468,926 | 256,983 | 211,943 | 104,313 |
| Arkansas | 6 | 157,565 | 131,820 | 25,745 | 51,060 |
| California | 5 | 1,852,768 | 1,395,802 | 456,966 | 798,772 |
| Colorado | 2 | 330,710 | 193,244 | 137,466 | 83,047 |
| Connecticut | 6 | 126,690 | 115,093 | 11,597 | 71,059 |
| Delaware | 1 | 43,738 | 42,465 | 1,273 | 21,886 |
| Florida | 1 | 680,972 | 598,648 | 82,324 | 264,770 |
| Georgia | 9 | 561,393 | 359,486 | 201,907 | 129,871 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 70,805 | 65,251 | 5,554 | 33,118 |
| Idaho | 2 | 75,529 | 65,851 | 9,678 | 29,684 |
| Illinois | 6 | 770,357 | 475,255 | 295,102 | 278,192 |
| Indiana | 8 | 277,210 | 227,787 | 49,423 | 104,130 |
| Iowa | 4 | 232,493 | 169,917 | 62,576 | 89,892 |
| Kansas | 1 | 181,892 | 144,227 | 37,665 | 65,765 |
| Kentucky | 6 | 319,136 | 224,359 | 94,777 | 117,950 |
| Louisiana | 14 | 277,738 | 206,700 | 71,038 | 138,142 |
| Maine | 1 | 59,912 | 52,060 | 7,852 | 33,586 |
| Maryland | 2 | 251,465 | 198,949 | 52,516 | 109,598 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | 244,858 | 205,101 | 39,757 | 113,365 |
| Michigan | 6 | 394,076 | 366,570 | 27,506 | 234,528 |
| Minnesota | 8 | 498,722 | 288,557 | 210,165 | 144,902 |
| Mississippi | 4 | 286,856 | 163,617 | 123,239 | 73,708 |
| Missouri | 10 | 283,288 | 237,695 | 45,593 | 113,044 |
| Montana | 9 | 72,384 | 51,644 | 20,740 | 30,481 |
| Nebraska | 5 | 72,275 | 50,548 | 21,727 | 15,250 |
| Nevada | 2 | 114,759 | 103,755 | 11,004 | 36,065 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | 55,574 | 50,857 | 4,717 | 21,283 |
| New Jersey | 7 | 531,495 | 468,024 | 63,471 | 232,282 |
| New Mexico | 5 | 152,364 | 119,182 | 33,182 | 53,327 |
| New York | 2 | 937,366 | 822,059 | 115,307 | 483,758 |
| North Carolina | 6 | 580,782 | 496,235 | 84,547 | 195,490 |
| North Dakota | 2 | 32,730 | 28,149 | 4,581 | 12,549 |
| Ohio | 5 | 1,175,453 | 692,035 | 483,418 | 396,192 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | 170,530 | 150,324 | 20,206 | 82,101 |
| Oregon | 1 | 217,061 | 164,548 | 52,513 | 104,256 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | 466,868 | 390,242 | 76,626 | 278,715 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 42,354 | 35,646 | 6,708 | 22,927 |
| South Carolina | 4 | 371,462 | 209,420 | 162,042 | 107,800 |
| South Dakota | 2 | 51,315 | 37,310 | 14,005 | 25,166 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 238,257 | 211,287 | 26,970 | 102,563 |
| Texas | 7 | 1,427,827 | 1,227,089 | 200,738 | 418,535 |
| Utah | 6 | 129,983 | 99,589 | 30,394 | 38,796 |
| Vermont | 3 | 32,935 | 25,252 | 7,683 | 11,117 |
| Virginia | 1 | 358,908 | 326,845 | 32,063 | 127,487 |
| Washington | 6 | 288,112 | 247,717 | 40,395 | 122,084 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 72,113 | 55,885 | 16,228 | 48,303 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | 401,735 | 262,856 | 138,879 | 142,992 |
| Wyoming | 6 | 42,006 | 36,922 | 5,084 | 19,029 |
| Data Created: February 25, 2011 |
| Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011 |