Table 5a. Number and Membership of State and Local Public-Employee Retirement System by State Fiscal Year 2009 Source: 2009 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 is from a sample of public employee retirement systems, and as such are subject to sampling variability. Additionally, the data are subject to coverage, response and processing errors as well as errors of nonresponse. For more information on the data limitations, definitions and methodology, see . Total beneficiaries Membership receiving Number -------------------------------------------------- periodic State and level of Active Inactive benefit of government systems Total members members payments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- United States 3,418 19,479,457 14,829,943 4,649,514 7,990,405 State 222 17,497,223 13,112,318 4,384,905 6,751,285 Local 3,196 1,982,234 1,717,625 264,609 1,239,120 County 168 570,430 487,354 83,076 283,374 Municipality 2,176 1,196,695 1,040,889 155,806 828,651 Township 634 45,568 41,361 4,207 33,910 Special District 206 98,029 85,835 12,194 47,261 School District 12 71,512 62,185 9,327 45,924 Alabama 11 274,650 246,062 28,588 109,846 Alaska 5 50,097 41,433 8,664 35,372 Arizona 7 509,295 275,933 233,362 126,200 Arkansas 36 161,422 132,759 28,663 62,964 California 62 2,351,335 1,767,618 583,717 1,017,122 Colorado 67 387,607 223,636 163,970 103,134 Connecticut 61 147,060 133,148 13,912 90,138 Delaware 6 46,673 44,640 2,033 25,192 District of Columbia 7 21,414 19,718 1,696 7,883 Florida 303 753,031 665,145 87,887 362,782 Georgia 34 610,678 392,668 218,010 155,462 Hawaii 1 72,436 66,589 5,847 36,230 Idaho 4 77,939 67,864 10,075 32,327 Illinois 457 974,719 633,233 341,486 404,194 Indiana 72 294,609 232,917 61,692 113,231 Iowa 9 239,224 172,709 66,515 94,352 Kansas 8 202,007 159,924 42,083 73,398 Kentucky 21 328,686 223,088 105,598 131,535 Louisiana 35 316,378 223,996 92,382 144,858 Maine 1 58,249 50,477 7,772 34,994 Maryland 16 296,307 241,199 55,108 151,548 Massachusetts 100 379,223 315,822 63,400 187,888 Michigan 138 423,524 390,892 32,633 302,318 Minnesota 145 514,987 293,183 221,804 166,210 Mississippi 4 294,541 167,901 126,640 79,085 Missouri 66 324,487 265,049 59,438 148,249 Montana 9 74,371 53,350 21,021 32,281 Nebraska 14 101,356 76,508 24,848 24,233 Nevada 2 117,069 105,462 11,607 41,972 New Hampshire 4 59,415 52,576 6,839 25,221 New Jersey 10 596,393 525,042 71,351 247,902 New Mexico 5 155,286 122,026 33,260 57,782 New York 10 1,384,735 1,201,409 183,326 773,417 North Carolina 8 629,420 494,218 135,202 211,273 North Dakota 12 36,508 31,358 5,150 14,356 Ohio 6 1,265,387 700,709 564,678 399,117 Oklahoma 12 175,325 160,417 14,908 92,226 Oregon 6 215,941 172,481 43,460 110,197 Pennsylvania 1,425 646,109 519,496 126,613 385,355 Rhode Island 13 47,031 39,474 7,557 28,918 South Carolina 6 386,392 219,733 166,659 116,522 South Dakota 4 53,905 39,849 14,056 20,693 Tennessee 15 279,238 246,145 33,093 129,594 Texas 75 1,653,305 1,430,210 223,095 482,325 Utah 7 141,849 108,016 33,833 42,390 Vermont 5 33,965 26,283 7,682 12,688 Virginia 18 450,114 408,196 41,918 176,737 Washington 26 292,754 252,364 40,390 133,061 West Virginia 41 91,694 74,346 17,348 52,079 Wisconsin 3 434,987 282,139 152,848 163,159 Wyoming 6 46,330 40,534 5,796 20,393 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Created: September 29, 2011 Data Last Revised: September 29, 2011