Table 3. Expenditures of State Public Employee Retirement Systems by State: Fiscal Year 2008 (Thousand Dollars) Source: 2008 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. National and State Totals Total Other payments Benefits Withdrawals payments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 157,459,093 143,453,487 3,260,178 10,745,428 Alabama 2,400,859 2,169,141 68,919 162,799 Alaska 865,220 758,517 14,351 92,352 Arizona 2,487,426 2,240,874 128,241 118,311 Arkansas 1,142,025 970,730 10,845 160,450 California 21,397,173 20,194,042 482,035 721,096 Colorado 3,251,120 2,569,811 140,975 540,334 Connecticut 2,612,134 2,403,299 2,788 206,047 Delaware 357,019 348,070 3,336 5,613 Florida 6,526,230 5,226,433 222,523 1,077,274 Georgia 4,182,422 4,009,150 62,620 110,652 Hawaii 838,438 792,313 3,669 42,456 Idaho 484,006 483,753 0 253 Illinois 7,350,232 6,933,590 114,300 302,342 Indiana 1,848,196 1,550,706 59,324 238,166 Iowa 1,206,729 1,204,006 1,360 1,363 Kansas 1,096,469 1,007,713 48,473 40,283 Kentucky 2,583,548 2,493,509 41,433 48,606 Louisiana 2,888,144 2,666,698 88,138 133,308 Maine 648,282 576,346 27,309 44,627 Maryland 2,312,708 2,180,241 16,223 116,244 Massachusetts 2,930,797 2,788,969 7,571 134,257 Michigan 5,031,919 4,439,600 40,106 552,213 Minnesota 3,254,183 2,962,044 54,516 237,623 Mississippi 1,780,061 1,450,185 72,790 257,086 Missouri 2,827,199 2,564,596 64,360 198,243 Montana 501,288 423,696 23,504 54,088 Nebraska 335,342 310,445 16,268 8,629 Nevada 1,243,467 1,033,622 16,830 193,015 New Hampshire 483,034 395,070 32,297 55,667 New Jersey 6,301,243 6,107,512 141,345 52,386 New Mexico 1,279,913 1,144,704 60,849 74,360 New York 13,629,223 11,791,480 22,792 1,814,951 North Carolina 3,774,348 3,628,958 123,902 21,488 North Dakota 194,970 176,471 5,500 12,999 Ohio 9,482,087 8,987,214 271,823 223,050 Oklahoma 1,628,286 1,443,872 65,311 119,103 Oregon 3,393,498 2,768,305 50,661 574,532 Pennsylvania 7,422,559 7,024,581 15,189 382,789 Rhode Island 781,622 687,704 10,840 83,078 South Carolina 2,448,171 2,088,879 93,094 266,198 South Dakota 276,440 276,098 0 342 Tennessee 1,385,894 1,332,716 45,976 7,202 Texas 8,857,812 8,281,147 422,167 154,498 Utah 832,344 803,097 6,734 22,513 Vermont 204,619 187,677 3,838 13,104 Virginia 2,717,641 2,427,543 98 290,000 Washington 2,758,434 2,485,745 45,444 227,245 West Virginia 757,033 701,628 9,448 45,957 Wisconsin 4,194,668 3,689,046 0 505,622 Wyoming 272,618 271,941 63 614 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Created: February 25, 2011 Data Last Revised: April 14, 2011