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| Table 6. Pension Obligations of State Public Employee |
| Defined Benefit 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 | Covered Payroll |
Pension Obligations |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 535,940,463 | 2,912,759,428 |
| Alabama | 9,741,090 | 38,672,048 |
| Alaska | 2,167,195 | 13,843,049 |
| Arizona | 9,077,137 | 39,716,096 |
| Arkansas | 4,046,961 | 22,606,170 |
| California | 75,318,014 | 459,604,787 |
| Colorado | 6,828,371 | 53,039,366 |
| Connecticut | 4,346,450 | 43,443,704 |
| Delaware | 1,711,473 | 6,549,856 |
| Florida | 26,385,768 | 118,870,513 |
| Georgia | 12,163,149 | 71,208,346 |
| Hawaii | 3,807,611 | 14,121,782 |
| Idaho | 2,584,600 | 11,284,300 |
| Illinois | 21,880,435 | 143,306,307 |
| Indiana | 9,423,936 | 34,674,500 |
| Iowa | 6,381,860 | 27,189,868 |
| Kansas | 5,949,228 | 18,984,915 |
| Kentucky | 7,906,984 | 43,801,336 |
| Louisiana | 6,656,846 | 37,640,943 |
| Maine | 1,991,200 | 13,674,900 |
| Maryland | 10,687,531 | 50,571,035 |
| Massachusetts | 10,421,286 | 64,158,684 |
| Michigan | 13,408,000 | 73,861,300 |
| Minnesota | 7,981,015 | 57,645,154 |
| Mississippi | 5,583,303 | 29,311,777 |
| Missouri | 10,043,516 | 55,682,714 |
| Montana | 1,801,475 | 9,725,168 |
| Nebraska | 1,819,095 | 8,667,784 |
| Nevada | 5,194,400 | 30,501,845 |
| New Hampshire | 2,315,154 | 7,868,469 |
| New Jersey | 24,294,384 | 117,982,301 |
| New Mexico | 4,471,824 | 26,899,138 |
| New York | 38,533,128 | 217,376,452 |
| North Carolina | 17,516,953 | 70,565,112 |
| North Dakota | 1,058,385 | 4,067,867 |
| Ohio | 15,262,760 | 181,760,812 |
| Oklahoma | 6,021,523 | 33,457,950 |
| Oregon | 7,721,800 | 52,871,200 |
| Pennsylvania | 18,786,691 | 102,430,022 |
| Rhode Island | 1,939,940 | 12,358,028 |
| South Carolina | 8,106,291 | 37,797,624 |
| South Dakota | 1,363,400 | 7,020,012 |
| Tennessee | 7,824,830 | 32,715,771 |
| Texas | 46,443,666 | 177,155,764 |
| Utah | 4,487,007 | 22,675,051 |
| Vermont | 986,000 | 3,272,000 |
| Virginia | 13,834,000 | 58,116,000 |
| Washington | 14,209,000 | 54,711,000 |
| West Virginia | 2,109,963 | 12,362,087 |
| Wisconsin | 11,720,000 | 80,079,000 |
| Wyoming | 1,625,835 | 6,859,521 |
| Data Created: February 25, 2011 |
| Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011 |