Table 6. Pension Obligations of State Public Employee Retirement Systems by State: Fiscal Year 2007 (Thousand Dollars) 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://www.census.gov/govs/retire/how_data_collected.html. National and State Totals Covered Pension Payroll Obligations ---------------------------------------------------------------- United States 499,553,461 2,661,969,956 Alabama 8,567,774 35,704,256 Alaska 2,172,233 13,090,657 Arizona 10,116,773 36,703,425 Arkansas 3,764,838 21,041,747 California 70,025,000 420,659,735 Colorado 12,832,802 44,889,263 Connecticut 6,818,200 36,811,600 Delaware 1,790,678 6,894,248 Florida 26,385,768 118,870,513 Georgia 11,416,152 65,994,177 Hawaii 3,507,040 15,696,546 Idaho 2,426,669 10,491,697 Illinois 15,259,836 137,396,851 Indiana 8,775,129 25,849,290 Iowa 6,056,439 23,556,799 Kansas 5,599,193 17,552,790 Kentucky 7,522,162 41,060,215 Louisiana 6,249,823 35,090,138 Maine 1,940,200 13,089,400 Maryland 9,971,012 49,306,375 Massachusetts 10,401,313 55,332,671 Michigan 13,345,500 70,755,700 Minnesota 11,065,184 56,155,076 Mississippi 5,232,109 27,632,278 Missouri 9,466,117 52,878,851 Montana 1,712,430 9,168,369 Nebraska 1,692,656 7,819,595 Nevada 3,624,391 29,843,000 New Hampshire 2,195,339 7,259,715 New Jersey 23,337,209 110,447,653 New Mexico 4,264,839 25,329,712 New York 33,437,000 184,138,000 North Carolina 4,537,148 65,844,872 North Dakota 983,600 3,819,500 Ohio 26,448,913 168,240,498 Oklahoma 6,028,670 30,374,567 Oregon 7,326,800 51,252,900 Pennsylvania 17,439,740 96,274,383 Rhode Island 1,861,045 11,731,220 South Carolina 7,684,977 35,765,918 South Dakota 1,297,300 6,718,800 Tennessee 7,136,957 28,117,184 Texas 45,074,177 174,873,432 Utah 3,878,603 18,783,454 Vermont 1,064,861 3,434,146 Virginia 13,002,000 52,822,000 Washington 1,251,000 27,939,000 West Virginia 1,159,715 4,264,700 Wisconsin 10,973,400 68,987,500 Wyoming 1,432,747 6,215,540 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Data Created: February 25, 2011 Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011