Table 1.  National Summary of State Public
Employee Retirement System Finances: Fiscal Year 2009
(Thousand Dollars)
 
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 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.
 
Item                                                Amount
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Total receipts                                -425,782,081
   Employee contributions                       33,335,871
   Government contributions                     64,836,246
      State government contributions(r)         35,217,658
      Local government contributions(r)         29,618,588
   Earnings on investments(1)                 -523,954,198
        
Total payments                                 161,686,475
   Benefits                                    151,850,339
   Withdrawals                                   3,282,212
   Other payments                                6,553,924
        
Total cash and investment holdings           2,029,201,192
        
Cash and short-term investments                 84,254,144
        
Total securities                             1,616,544,698
   Governmental securities                     163,891,577
      Federal government                       163,220,670
         United States Treasury                112,446,110
         Federal agency                         50,774,560
      State and local government                   670,907
   Nongovernmental                           1,452,653,121
      Corporate bonds                          336,130,557
      Corporate stocks                         658,838,580
      Mortgages                                 14,113,984
      Funds held in trust                       62,800,512
      Foreign and international                316,141,175
      Other nongovernmental                     64,628,313
        
Other investments                              328,402,350
   Real property                                92,729,218
   Miscellaneous investments                   235,673,132
        
Pension Obligations                          3,031,053,321 
        
Covered Payroll                                563,464,329 
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(1) The total of "net earnings" is a calculated statistic (the item code in the data file is X08), 
and thus can be positive or negative.  Net earnings is the sum of earnings on investments plus 
gains on investments minus losses on investments.  The change made in 2002 for asset valuation 
from book to market value in accordance with Statement 34 of the Governmental Accounting Standards 
Board is reflected in the calculated statistics.

(r) Data for "State government contributions" and "Local government contributions" were transposed  
when released in April 2011. As of October 13, 2011 the data cells correspond to the correct  
contributions category. No other revisions have been made to the statistics since April 22, 2011.

Data Created: February 25, 2011 
Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011