Table 6. Pension Obligations of State Public Employee Defined Benefit Retirement Systems

by State:

Fiscal Year 2007

State Covered Payroll Pension Obligations

United States 499,553,461                                                  2,661,969,956

Alabama                      8,567,774                                     35,704,256

Alaska                      2,172,233                                     13,090,657

Arizona                    10,116,773                                     36,703,425

Arkansas                      3,764,838                                     21,041,747

California                    70,025,000                                   420,659,735

Colorado                    12,832,802                                     44,889,263

Connecticut                      6,818,200                                     36,811,600

Delaware                      1,790,678                                        6,894,248

Florida                    26,385,768                                   118,870,513

Georgia                    11,416,152                                     65,994,177

Hawaii                      3,507,040                                     15,696,546

Idaho                      2,426,669                                     10,491,697

Illinois                    15,259,836                                   137,396,851

Indiana                      8,775,129                                     25,849,290

Iowa                      6,056,439                                     23,556,799

Kansas                      5,599,193                                     17,552,790

Kentucky                      7,522,162                                     41,060,215

Louisiana                      6,249,823                                     35,090,138

Maine                      1,940,200                                     13,089,400

Maryland                      9,971,012                                     49,306,375

Massachusetts                    10,401,313                                     55,332,671

Michigan                    13,345,500                                     70,755,700

Minnesota                    11,065,184                                     56,155,076

Mississippi                      5,232,109                                     27,632,278

Missouri                      9,466,117                                     52,878,851

Montana                      1,712,430                                        9,168,369

Nebraska                      1,692,656                                        7,819,595

Nevada                      3,624,391                                     29,843,000

New Hampshire                      2,195,339                                        7,259,715

New Jersey                    23,337,209                                   110,447,653

New Mexico                      4,264,839                                     25,329,712

New York                    33,437,000                                   184,138,000

North Carolina                      4,537,148                                     65,844,872

North Dakota                          983,600                                        3,819,500

Ohio                    26,448,913                                   168,240,498

Oklahoma                      6,028,670                                     30,374,567

Oregon                      7,326,800                                     51,252,900

Pennsylvania                    17,439,740                                     96,274,383

Rhode Island                      1,861,045                                     11,731,220

South Carolina                      7,684,977                                     35,765,918

South Dakota                      1,297,300                                        6,718,800

(Thousand dollars)
Tennessee                      7,136,957                                     28,117,184

Texas                    45,074,177                                   174,873,432

Utah                      3,878,603                                     18,783,454

Vermont                      1,064,861                                        3,434,146

Virginia                    13,002,000                                     52,822,000

Washington                      1,251,000                                     27,939,000

West Virginia                      1,159,715                                        4,264,700

Wisconsin                    10,973,400                                     68,987,500

Wyoming                      1,432,747                                        6,215,540

Data Created: February 25, 2011

Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011

Source: 2007 Annual 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.  Although the data in this table come from a census of

retirement systems and are not subject to sampling error, the census

results do contain nonsampling error. Additional information on

nonsampling error, and response rates may be found at

http://www.census.gov/govs/retire/how_data_collected.html.