State & Local Public Retirement Systems Viewable Data

Table 5a. Number and Membership of State and Local 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 is from a sample of public employee retirement

systems, and as such are subject to sampling variability. Additionally,

the data are subject to coverage, response and processing errors as well

as errors of nonresponse. For more information on the data limitations,

definitions and methodology, see http://www.census.gov/govs/retire/how_data_collected.html.

State and level of government	Number of systems	Membership			Total beneficiaries receiving periodic benefit payments
State and level of government	Number of systems	Total	Active members	Inactive members	Total beneficiaries receiving periodic benefit payments
United States	2,550	19,101,926	14,709,681	4,392,245	7,744,548
State	218	17,224,354	13,086,240	4,138,114	6,595,721
Local	2,332	1,877,572	1,623,441	254,131	1,148,827
County	160	576,381	482,936	93,445	275,771
Municipality	1,659	1,150,375	1,006,523	143,851	780,037
Township	395	38,623	35,106	3,517	21,983
Special District	106	40,180	36,767	3,413	25,733
School District	12	72,013	62,109	9,904	45,303
Alabama	11	272,338	244,494	27,844	113,373
Alaska	5	52,227	44,080	8,147	40,617
Arizona	7	499,386	271,826	227,560	115,904
Arkansas	35	158,064	131,055	27,009	58,073
California	59	2,330,989	1,779,729	551,260	1,033,167
Colorado	60	376,148	222,679	153,469	99,526
Connecticut	61	146,109	133,598	12,511	89,704
Delaware	6	46,573	43,918	2,655	24,480
District of Columbia	6	12,436	11,399	1,037	3,591
Florida	162	723,968	640,744	83,224	333,463
Georgia	31	599,042	390,005	209,037	149,020
Hawaii	1	72,436	66,589	5,847	36,260
Idaho	4	76,933	66,842	10,091	31,040
Illinois	370	959,531	627,950	331,581	390,025
Indiana	73	291,464	232,608	58,856	111,917
Iowa	9	237,496	172,821	64,675	91,959
Kansas	8	197,572	155,996	41,576	69,266
Kentucky	21	327,389	225,870	101,519	124,187
Louisiana	33	311,322	221,484	89,838	138,360
Maine	1	59,595	51,402	8,193	34,257
Maryland	13	295,464	240,310	55,154	146,599
Massachusetts	100	379,515	312,878	66,637	183,139
Michigan	138	426,726	393,771	32,954	300,452
Minnesota	88	511,164	293,867	217,298	161,057
Mississippi	4	292,703	166,576	126,127	76,474
Missouri	62	330,751	275,618	55,133	141,239
Montana	9	73,672	52,308	21,364	31,478
Nebraska	13	99,767	74,938	24,829	23,305
Nevada	2	117,794	106,168	11,626	38,197
New Hampshire	4	57,483	52,640	4,843	23,552
New Jersey	10	583,366	512,015	71,351	239,221
New Mexico	5	153,627	120,475	33,152	56,551
New York	9	1,378,378	1,257,961	120,417	767,870
North Carolina	10	609,312	510,093	99,219	202,598
North Dakota	12	35,107	30,206	4,901	13,703
Ohio	6	1,199,602	695,178	504,424	383,430
Oklahoma	12	173,664	159,209	14,455	88,250
Oregon	4	215,474	169,059	46,415	108,358
Pennsylvania	903	631,921	497,917	134,004	359,762
Rhode Island	13	47,374	40,224	7,150	28,532
South Carolina	6	378,679	214,096	164,583	112,298
South Dakota	4	53,214	38,752	14,462	19,901
Tennessee	14	281,184	247,939	33,245	123,978
Texas	48	1,566,136	1,354,081	212,055	450,494
Utah	6	134,191	102,009	32,182	40,510
Vermont	5	34,156	26,312	7,844	13,240
Virginia	14	442,764	393,591	49,173	166,679
Washington	23	301,785	258,512	43,273	131,599
West Virginia	41	76,416	59,082	17,334	48,555
Wisconsin	3	424,075	278,904	145,171	155,887
Wyoming	6	45,443	39,903	5,540	19,453

Data Created: March 23, 2010

Data Last Revised: September 29, 2011

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