Table 6. Pension Obligations 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. 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 535,940,463 2,912,759,428 Alabama 9,741,090 38,672,048 Alaska 2,167,195 13,843,049 Arizona 9,077,137 39,716,096 Arkansas 4,046,961 22,606,170 California 75,318,014 459,604,787 Colorado 6,828,371 53,039,366 Connecticut 4,346,450 43,443,704 Delaware 1,711,473 6,549,856 Florida 26,385,768 118,870,513 Georgia 12,163,149 71,208,346 Hawaii 3,807,611 14,121,782 Idaho 2,584,600 11,284,300 Illinois 21,880,435 143,306,307 Indiana 9,423,936 34,674,500 Iowa 6,381,860 27,189,868 Kansas 5,949,228 18,984,915 Kentucky 7,906,984 43,801,336 Louisiana 6,656,846 37,640,943 Maine 1,991,200 13,674,900 Maryland 10,687,531 50,571,035 Massachusetts 10,421,286 64,158,684 Michigan 13,408,000 73,861,300 Minnesota 7,981,015 57,645,154 Mississippi 5,583,303 29,311,777 Missouri 10,043,516 55,682,714 Montana 1,801,475 9,725,168 Nebraska 1,819,095 8,667,784 Nevada 5,194,400 30,501,845 New Hampshire 2,315,154 7,868,469 New Jersey 24,294,384 117,982,301 New Mexico 4,471,824 26,899,138 New York 38,533,128 217,376,452 North Carolina 17,516,953 70,565,112 North Dakota 1,058,385 4,067,867 Ohio 15,262,760 181,760,812 Oklahoma 6,021,523 33,457,950 Oregon 7,721,800 52,871,200 Pennsylvania 18,786,691 102,430,022 Rhode Island 1,939,940 12,358,028 South Carolina 8,106,291 37,797,624 South Dakota 1,363,400 7,020,012 Tennessee 7,824,830 32,715,771 Texas 46,443,666 177,155,764 Utah 4,487,007 22,675,051 Vermont 986,000 3,272,000 Virginia 13,834,000 58,116,000 Washington 14,209,000 54,711,000 West Virginia 2,109,963 12,362,087 Wisconsin 11,720,000 80,079,000 Wyoming 1,625,835 6,859,521 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Data Created: February 25, 2011 Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011