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| Table 6. Pension Obligations of State Public Employee |
| Defined Benefit Retirement Systems by State: Fiscal Year 2007 |
| (Thousand Dollars) |
| Source: 2007 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 | Covered Payroll |
Pension Obligations |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 499,553,461 | 2,661,969,956 |
| Alabama | 8,567,774 | 35,704,256 |
| Alaska | 2,172,233 | 13,090,657 |
| Arizona | 10,116,773 | 36,703,425 |
| Arkansas | 3,764,838 | 21,041,747 |
| California | 70,025,000 | 420,659,735 |
| Colorado | 12,832,802 | 44,889,263 |
| Connecticut | 6,818,200 | 36,811,600 |
| Delaware | 1,790,678 | 6,894,248 |
| Florida | 26,385,768 | 118,870,513 |
| Georgia | 11,416,152 | 65,994,177 |
| Hawaii | 3,507,040 | 15,696,546 |
| Idaho | 2,426,669 | 10,491,697 |
| Illinois | 15,259,836 | 137,396,851 |
| Indiana | 8,775,129 | 25,849,290 |
| Iowa | 6,056,439 | 23,556,799 |
| Kansas | 5,599,193 | 17,552,790 |
| Kentucky | 7,522,162 | 41,060,215 |
| Louisiana | 6,249,823 | 35,090,138 |
| Maine | 1,940,200 | 13,089,400 |
| Maryland | 9,971,012 | 49,306,375 |
| Massachusetts | 10,401,313 | 55,332,671 |
| Michigan | 13,345,500 | 70,755,700 |
| Minnesota | 11,065,184 | 56,155,076 |
| Mississippi | 5,232,109 | 27,632,278 |
| Missouri | 9,466,117 | 52,878,851 |
| Montana | 1,712,430 | 9,168,369 |
| Nebraska | 1,692,656 | 7,819,595 |
| Nevada | 3,624,391 | 29,843,000 |
| New Hampshire | 2,195,339 | 7,259,715 |
| New Jersey | 23,337,209 | 110,447,653 |
| New Mexico | 4,264,839 | 25,329,712 |
| New York | 33,437,000 | 184,138,000 |
| North Carolina | 4,537,148 | 65,844,872 |
| North Dakota | 983,600 | 3,819,500 |
| Ohio | 26,448,913 | 168,240,498 |
| Oklahoma | 6,028,670 | 30,374,567 |
| Oregon | 7,326,800 | 51,252,900 |
| Pennsylvania | 17,439,740 | 96,274,383 |
| Rhode Island | 1,861,045 | 11,731,220 |
| South Carolina | 7,684,977 | 35,765,918 |
| South Dakota | 1,297,300 | 6,718,800 |
| Tennessee | 7,136,957 | 28,117,184 |
| Texas | 45,074,177 | 174,873,432 |
| Utah | 3,878,603 | 18,783,454 |
| Vermont | 1,064,861 | 3,434,146 |
| Virginia | 13,002,000 | 52,822,000 |
| Washington | 1,251,000 | 27,939,000 |
| West Virginia | 1,159,715 | 4,264,700 |
| Wisconsin | 10,973,400 | 68,987,500 |
| Wyoming | 1,432,747 | 6,215,540 |
| Data Created: February 25, 2011 |
| Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011 |