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| Table 3. Expenditures of State Public Employee |
| Retirement Systems by State: Fiscal Year 2008 |
| (Thousand Dollars) |
| Source: 2008 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 | Total payments |
Benefits | Withdrawals | Other payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 157,459,093 | 143,453,487 | 3,260,178 | 10,745,428 |
| Alabama | 2,400,859 | 2,169,141 | 68,919 | 162,799 |
| Alaska | 865,220 | 758,517 | 14,351 | 92,352 |
| Arizona | 2,487,426 | 2,240,874 | 128,241 | 118,311 |
| Arkansas | 1,142,025 | 970,730 | 10,845 | 160,450 |
| California | 21,397,173 | 20,194,042 | 482,035 | 721,096 |
| Colorado | 3,251,120 | 2,569,811 | 140,975 | 540,334 |
| Connecticut | 2,612,134 | 2,403,299 | 2,788 | 206,047 |
| Delaware | 357,019 | 348,070 | 3,336 | 5,613 |
| Florida | 6,526,230 | 5,226,433 | 222,523 | 1,077,274 |
| Georgia | 4,182,422 | 4,009,150 | 62,620 | 110,652 |
| Hawaii | 838,438 | 792,313 | 3,669 | 42,456 |
| Idaho | 484,006 | 483,753 | - | 253 |
| Illinois | 7,350,232 | 6,933,590 | 114,300 | 302,342 |
| Indiana | 1,848,196 | 1,550,706 | 59,324 | 238,166 |
| Iowa | 1,206,729 | 1,204,006 | 1,360 | 1,363 |
| Kansas | 1,096,469 | 1,007,713 | 48,473 | 40,283 |
| Kentucky | 2,583,548 | 2,493,509 | 41,433 | 48,606 |
| Louisiana | 2,888,144 | 2,666,698 | 88,138 | 133,308 |
| Maine | 648,282 | 576,346 | 27,309 | 44,627 |
| Maryland | 2,312,708 | 2,180,241 | 16,223 | 116,244 |
| Massachusetts | 2,930,797 | 2,788,969 | 7,571 | 134,257 |
| Michigan | 5,031,919 | 4,439,600 | 40,106 | 552,213 |
| Minnesota | 3,254,183 | 2,962,044 | 54,516 | 237,623 |
| Mississippi | 1,780,061 | 1,450,185 | 72,790 | 257,086 |
| Missouri | 2,827,199 | 2,564,596 | 64,360 | 198,243 |
| Montana | 501,288 | 423,696 | 23,504 | 54,088 |
| Nebraska | 335,342 | 310,445 | 16,268 | 8,629 |
| Nevada | 1,243,467 | 1,033,622 | 16,830 | 193,015 |
| New Hampshire | 483,034 | 395,070 | 32,297 | 55,667 |
| New Jersey | 6,301,243 | 6,107,512 | 141,345 | 52,386 |
| New Mexico | 1,279,913 | 1,144,704 | 60,849 | 74,360 |
| New York | 13,629,223 | 11,791,480 | 22,792 | 1,814,951 |
| North Carolina | 3,774,348 | 3,628,958 | 123,902 | 21,488 |
| North Dakota | 194,970 | 176,471 | 5,500 | 12,999 |
| Ohio | 9,482,087 | 8,987,214 | 271,823 | 223,050 |
| Oklahoma | 1,628,286 | 1,443,872 | 65,311 | 119,103 |
| Oregon | 3,393,498 | 2,768,305 | 50,661 | 574,532 |
| Pennsylvania | 7,422,559 | 7,024,581 | 15,189 | 382,789 |
| Rhode Island | 781,622 | 687,704 | 10,840 | 83,078 |
| South Carolina | 2,448,171 | 2,088,879 | 93,094 | 266,198 |
| South Dakota | 276,440 | 276,098 | - | 342 |
| Tennessee | 1,385,894 | 1,332,716 | 45,976 | 7,202 |
| Texas | 8,857,812 | 8,281,147 | 422,167 | 154,498 |
| Utah | 832,344 | 803,097 | 6,734 | 22,513 |
| Vermont | 204,619 | 187,677 | 3,838 | 13,104 |
| Virginia | 2,717,641 | 2,427,543 | 98 | 290,000 |
| Washington | 2,758,434 | 2,485,745 | 45,444 | 227,245 |
| West Virginia | 757,033 | 701,628 | 9,448 | 45,957 |
| Wisconsin | 4,194,668 | 3,689,046 | - | 505,622 |
| Wyoming | 272,618 | 271,941 | 63 | 614 |
| Data Created: February 25, 2011 |
| Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011 |