| Table 5. Number and Membership of State Public |
| Employee Retirement Systems 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 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. |
| State and level of government | Number of systems |
Membership | Total beneficiaries receiving periodic benefit payments |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Active members |
Inactive members |
|||
| United States | 222 | 17,436,114 | 13,087,349 | 4,348,765 | 6,808,000 |
| Alabama | 4 | 261,339 | 232,966 | 28,373 | 106,361 |
| Alaska | 4 | 52,372 | 43,719 | 8,653 | 34,714 |
| Arizona | 4 | 490,263 | 258,627 | 231,636 | 116,082 |
| Arkansas | 6 | 160,848 | 132,329 | 28,519 | 66,097 |
| California | 5 | 1,920,900 | 1,396,440 | 524,460 | 779,637 |
| Colorado | 2 | 360,728 | 201,524 | 159,204 | 87,174 |
| Connecticut | 6 | 125,188 | 112,835 | 12,353 | 83,002 |
| Delaware | 1 | 44,795 | 42,878 | 1,917 | 23,286 |
| Florida | 1 | 651,824 | 572,887 | 78,937 | 304,610 |
| Georgia | 9 | 581,211 | 365,274 | 215,937 | 140,046 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 72,436 | 66,589 | 5,847 | 36,271 |
| Idaho | 2 | 77,937 | 67,862 | 10,075 | 32,268 |
| Illinois | 6 | 801,683 | 491,283 | 310,400 | 292,907 |
| Indiana | 8 | 290,992 | 229,330 | 61,662 | 109,175 |
| Iowa | 4 | 205,115 | 172,465 | 32,650 | 94,226 |
| Kansas | 1 | 197,822 | 156,073 | 41,749 | 71,268 |
| Kentucky | 6 | 326,728 | 221,130 | 105,598 | 135,907 |
| Louisiana | 14 | 301,930 | 213,187 | 88,743 | 139,493 |
| Maine | 1 | 58,249 | 50,477 | 7,772 | 35,368 |
| Maryland | 2 | 254,931 | 202,537 | 52,394 | 117,331 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | 248,252 | 207,224 | 41,028 | 119,011 |
| Michigan | 6 | 371,760 | 344,094 | 27,666 | 243,675 |
| Minnesota | 8 | 505,070 | 286,153 | 218,917 | 155,159 |
| Mississippi | 4 | 294,541 | 167,901 | 126,640 | 79,085 |
| Missouri | 10 | 280,721 | 229,472 | 51,249 | 123,832 |
| Montana | 9 | 74,371 | 53,350 | 21,021 | 32,687 |
| Nebraska | 5 | 86,903 | 63,069 | 23,834 | 15,970 |
| Nevada | 2 | 117,069 | 105,462 | 11,607 | 42,207 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | 57,831 | 51,087 | 6,744 | 24,549 |
| New Jersey | 7 | 595,443 | 524,107 | 71,336 | 247,461 |
| New Mexico | 5 | 155,286 | 122,026 | 33,260 | 57,782 |
| New York | 2 | 960,402 | 841,361 | 119,041 | 500,134 |
| North Carolina | 6 | 626,847 | 491,608 | 135,239 | 210,030 |
| North Dakota | 2 | 34,702 | 29,650 | 5,052 | 13,606 |
| Ohio | 5 | 1,260,690 | 696,160 | 564,530 | 396,276 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | 166,549 | 152,429 | 14,120 | 87,698 |
| Oregon | 1 | 214,465 | 171,068 | 43,397 | 108,222 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | 512,134 | 392,889 | 119,245 | 285,831 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 29,897 | 24,933 | 4,964 | 20,905 |
| South Carolina | 4 | 386,230 | 219,582 | 166,648 | 116,327 |
| South Dakota | 2 | 52,582 | 38,596 | 13,986 | 20,075 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 244,040 | 213,276 | 30,764 | 107,702 |
| Texas | 7 | 1,559,639 | 1,351,195 | 208,444 | 457,736 |
| Utah | 6 | 139,856 | 106,261 | 33,595 | 42,138 |
| Vermont | 3 | 33,109 | 25,427 | 7,682 | 12,244 |
| Virginia | 1 | 380,194 | 346,929 | 33,265 | 141,746 |
| Washington | 6 | 277,094 | 238,867 | 38,227 | 124,076 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 73,787 | 56,506 | 17,281 | 52,077 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | 413,029 | 265,721 | 147,308 | 144,033 |
| Wyoming | 6 | 46,330 | 40,534 | 5,796 | 20,503 |
| Data Created: February 25, 2011 |
| Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011 |