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. Total beneficiaries Membership receiving Number -------------------------------------------------- periodic National and State Totals of Active Inactive benefit systems Total members members payments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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