Table 6. Pension Obligations of State Public Employee Retirement Systems by State: 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. 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 563,464,329 3,031,053,321 Alabama 9,888,838 40,220,463 Alaska 2,137,456 14,545,437 Arizona 2,123,953 42,436,682 Arkansas 4,186,370 24,033,978 California 78,935,900 492,344,800 Colorado 7,320,642 58,973,329 Connecticut 3,960,982 21,291,667 Delaware 1,753,129 6,827,006 Florida 26,891,340 124,087,214 Georgia 13,241,404 77,200,064 Hawaii 4,319,621 14,210,740 Idaho 2,689,460 11,807,545 Illinois 22,865,840 152,046,679 Indiana 9,685,373 36,074,979 Iowa 6,740,316 28,819,517 Kansas 6,226,526 20,106,787 Kentucky 5,239,549 35,563,772 Louisiana 8,656,843 48,749,368 Maine 2,061,400 14,410,000 Maryland 10,865,727 53,066,838 Massachusetts 11,262,686 61,780,577 Michigan 13,496,000 78,609,069 Minnesota 11,899,218 60,602,082 Mississippi 5,866,665 31,386,747 Missouri 10,584,994 60,813,890 Montana 1,855,277 10,304,575 Nebraska 1,872,544 8,967,613 Nevada 5,373,482 33,081,113 New Hampshire 2,455,089 8,529,931 New Jersey 25,179,385 125,805,870 New Mexico 5,098,399 28,814,690 New York 37,145,387 206,245,027 North Carolina 18,311,670 73,613,092 North Dakota 1,137,700 4,347,100 Ohio 28,128,505 194,181,545 Oklahoma 6,154,082 34,718,102 Oregon 8,130,100 54,259,500 Pennsylvania 19,056,291 106,813,932 Rhode Island 2,144,032 12,587,700 South Carolina 8,642,434 40,264,902 South Dakota 1,450,682 7,387,406 Tennessee 5,742,866 27,240,151 Texas 51,865,656 192,543,270 Utah 4,579,772 24,299,183 Vermont 1,157,625 4,012,955 Virginia 15,091,000 65,174,000 Washington 13,212,900 59,758,500 West Virginia 2,722,318 13,781,811 Wisconsin 12,289,600 77,412,000 Wyoming 1,767,301 6,900,123 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Data Created: February 25, 2011 Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011