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| Table 6. Pension Obligations of State Public Employee |
| Defined Benefit 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. |
| 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 | 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 |