Table 5. Number and Membership of State Public Employee Retirement Systems by State: Fiscal Year 2008 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. Total beneficiaries Membership receiving Number -------------------------------------------------- periodic National and State Totals of Active Inactive benefit systems Total members members payments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 222 17,215,183 13,073,495 4,141,688 6,468,158 Alabama 4 259,117 231,333 27,784 107,831 Alaska 4 60,599 43,960 16,639 39,978 Arizona 4 485,523 258,949 226,574 109,369 Arkansas 6 157,718 130,775 26,943 57,007 California 5 1,903,103 1,407,842 495,261 806,889 Colorado 2 347,200 198,439 148,761 84,766 Connecticut 6 117,490 114,045 3,445 72,284 Delaware 1 44,656 42,119 2,537 22,450 Florida 1 669,186 590,249 78,937 308,264 Georgia 9 571,215 364,118 207,097 133,834 Hawaii 1 72,436 66,589 5,847 36,301 Idaho 2 76,927 66,836 10,091 30,981 Illinois 6 787,100 483,817 303,283 285,546 Indiana 8 288,153 229,319 58,834 108,083 Iowa 4 237,187 172,576 64,611 92,436 Kansas 1 195,187 153,804 41,383 67,102 Kentucky 6 326,308 224,789 101,519 128,314 Louisiana 14 300,184 213,277 86,907 135,633 Maine 1 68,418 60,225 8,193 35,760 Maryland 2 254,260 201,953 52,307 113,700 Massachusetts 13 249,033 205,484 43,549 115,941 Michigan 6 373,934 346,278 27,656 242,900 Minnesota 8 506,853 286,218 220,635 150,357 Mississippi 4 292,703 166,576 126,127 76,474 Missouri 10 289,915 242,520 47,395 118,413 Montana 9 73,672 52,308 21,364 31,916 Nebraska 5 86,903 63,069 23,834 16,066 Nevada 2 117,794 106,168 11,626 38,489 New Hampshire 2 55,798 51,043 4,755 22,905 New Jersey 7 582,416 511,080 71,336 240,714 New Mexico 5 153,627 120,475 33,152 56,864 New York 2 957,185 896,818 60,367 495,783 North Carolina 6 607,839 508,642 99,197 39,196 North Dakota 2 33,439 28,611 4,828 12,992 Ohio 5 1,196,477 692,210 504,267 381,786 Oklahoma 6 165,672 151,638 14,034 85,109 Oregon 1 213,808 167,452 46,356 106,423 Pennsylvania 3 517,346 390,614 126,732 284,624 Rhode Island 1 42,117 35,274 6,843 23,419 South Carolina 4 378,516 213,938 164,578 112,106 South Dakota 2 52,113 37,707 14,406 19,459 Tennessee 1 246,645 215,645 31,000 103,149 Texas 7 1,482,928 1,284,201 198,727 429,442 Utah 6 134,191 102,009 32,182 40,510 Vermont 3 33,390 25,546 7,844 12,873 Virginia 1 365,887 333,158 32,729 133,119 Washington 6 286,544 245,167 41,377 123,060 West Virginia 1 49,293 35,873 13,420 20,726 Wisconsin 1 401,735 262,856 138,879 137,118 Wyoming 6 45,443 39,903 5,540 19,697 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Created: February 25, 2011 Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011