State & Local Public Retirement Systems Viewable Data

Table 5a. Number and Membership of State and Local Public-

Employee Retirement Systems by State

Fiscal Year 2009

Source: 2009 Survey of State and Local 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	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	3,418	19,479,457	14,829,943	4,649,514	7,990,405
State	222	17,497,223	13,112,318	4,384,905	6,751,285
Local	3,196	1,982,234	1,717,625	264,609	1,239,120
County	168	570,430	487,354	83,076	283,374
Municipality	2,176	1,196,695	1,040,889	155,806	828,651
Township	634	45,568	41,361	4,207	33,910
Special District	206	98,029	85,835	12,194	47,261
School District	12	71,512	62,185	9,327	45,924
Alabama	11	274,650	246,062	28,588	109,846
Alaska	5	50,097	41,433	8,664	35,372
Arizona	7	509,295	275,933	233,362	126,200
Arkansas	36	161,422	132,759	28,663	62,964
California	62	2,351,335	1,767,618	583,717	1,017,122
Colorado	67	387,607	223,636	163,970	103,134
Connecticut	61	147,060	133,148	13,912	90,138
Delaware	6	46,673	44,640	2,033	25,192
District of Columbia	7	21,414	19,718	1,696	7,883
Florida	303	753,031	665,145	87,887	362,782
Georgia	34	610,678	392,668	218,010	155,462
Hawaii	1	72,436	66,589	5,847	36,230
Idaho	4	77,939	67,864	10,075	32,327
Illinois	457	974,719	633,233	341,486	404,194
Indiana	72	294,609	232,917	61,692	113,231
Iowa	9	239,224	172,709	66,515	94,352
Kansas	8	202,007	159,924	42,083	73,398
Kentucky	21	328,686	223,088	105,598	131,535
Louisiana	35	316,378	223,996	92,382	144,858
Maine	1	58,249	50,477	7,772	34,994
Maryland	16	296,307	241,199	55,108	151,548
Massachusetts	100	379,223	315,822	63,400	187,888
Michigan	138	423,524	390,892	32,633	302,318
Minnesota	145	514,987	293,183	221,804	166,210
Mississippi	4	294,541	167,901	126,640	79,085
Missouri	66	324,487	265,049	59,438	148,249
Montana	9	74,371	53,350	21,021	32,281
Nebraska	14	101,356	76,508	24,848	24,233
Nevada	2	117,069	105,462	11,607	41,972
New Hampshire	4	59,415	52,576	6,839	25,221
New Jersey	10	596,393	525,042	71,351	247,902
New Mexico	5	155,286	122,026	33,260	57,782
New York	10	1,384,735	1,201,409	183,326	773,417
North Carolina	8	629,420	494,218	135,202	211,273
North Dakota	12	36,508	31,358	5,150	14,356
Ohio	6	1,265,387	700,709	564,678	399,117
Oklahoma	12	175,325	160,417	14,908	92,226
Oregon	6	215,941	172,481	43,460	110,197
Pennsylvania	1,425	646,109	519,496	126,613	385,355
Rhode Island	13	47,031	39,474	7,557	28,918
South Carolina	6	386,392	219,733	166,659	116,522
South Dakota	4	53,905	39,849	14,056	20,693
Tennessee	15	279,238	246,145	33,093	129,594
Texas	75	1,653,305	1,430,210	223,095	482,325
Utah	7	141,849	108,016	33,833	42,390
Vermont	5	33,965	26,283	7,682	12,688
Virginia	18	450,114	408,196	41,918	176,737
Washington	26	292,754	252,364	40,390	133,061
West Virginia	41	91,694	74,346	17,348	52,079
Wisconsin	3	434,987	282,139	152,848	163,159
Wyoming	6	46,330	40,534	5,796	20,393

Data Created: September 29, 2011

Data Last Revised: September 29, 2011

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