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. Total beneficiaries Membership receiving Number -------------------------------------------------- periodic National and State Totals of Active Inactive benefit systems Total members members payments ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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