Table 3. Expenditures of State Public Employee Retirement Systems

by State:

Fiscal Year 2008

State Total payments Benefits Withdrawals

Other

payments

United States       157,459,093      143,453,487     3,260,178     10,745,428

Alabama           2,400,859           2,169,141           68,919           162,799

Alaska               865,220              758,517           14,351             92,352

Arizona           2,487,426           2,240,874         128,241           118,311

Arkansas           1,142,025              970,730           10,845           160,450

California         21,397,173         20,194,042         482,035           721,096

Colorado           3,251,120           2,569,811         140,975           540,334

Connecticut           2,612,134           2,403,299             2,788           206,047

Delaware               357,019              348,070             3,336                5,613

Florida           6,526,230           5,226,433         222,523        1,077,274

Georgia           4,182,422           4,009,150           62,620           110,652

Hawaii               838,438              792,313             3,669             42,456

Idaho               484,006               ‐ 483,753                                    253

Illinois           7,350,232           6,933,590         114,300           302,342

Indiana           1,848,196           1,550,706           59,324           238,166

Iowa           1,206,729           1,204,006             1,360                1,363

Kansas           1,096,469           1,007,713           48,473             40,283

Kentucky           2,583,548           2,493,509           41,433             48,606

Louisiana           2,888,144           2,666,698           88,138           133,308

Maine               648,282              576,346           27,309             44,627

Maryland           2,312,708           2,180,241           16,223           116,244

Massachusetts           2,930,797           2,788,969             7,571           134,257

Michigan           5,031,919           4,439,600           40,106           552,213

Minnesota           3,254,183           2,962,044           54,516           237,623

Mississippi           1,780,061           1,450,185           72,790           257,086

Missouri           2,827,199           2,564,596           64,360           198,243

Montana               501,288              423,696           23,504             54,088

Nebraska               335,342              310,445           16,268                8,629

Nevada           1,243,467           1,033,622           16,830           193,015

New Hampshire               483,034              395,070           32,297             55,667

New Jersey           6,301,243           6,107,512         141,345             52,386

New Mexico           1,279,913           1,144,704           60,849             74,360

New York         13,629,223         11,791,480           22,792        1,814,951

North Carolina           3,774,348           3,628,958         123,902             21,488

North Dakota               194,970              176,471             5,500             12,999

Ohio           9,482,087           8,987,214         271,823           223,050

Oklahoma           1,628,286           1,443,872           65,311           119,103

Oregon           3,393,498           2,768,305           50,661           574,532

Pennsylvania           7,422,559           7,024,581           15,189           382,789

Rhode Island               781,622              687,704           10,840             83,078

South Carolina           2,448,171           2,088,879           93,094           266,198

(Thousand dollars)
Table 3. Expenditures of State Public Employee Retirement Systems

by State:

Fiscal Year 2008

State Total payments Benefits Withdrawals

Other

payments

(Thousand dollars)

South Dakota               276,440               ‐ 276,098                                    342

Tennessee           1,385,894           1,332,716           45,976                7,202

Texas           8,857,812           8,281,147         422,167           154,498

Utah               832,344              803,097             6,734             22,513

Vermont               204,619              187,677             3,838             13,104

Virginia           2,717,641           2,427,543                   98           290,000

Washington           2,758,434           2,485,745           45,444           227,245

West Virginia               757,033              701,628             9,448             45,957

Wisconsin           4,194,668           ‐ 3,689,046                            505,622

Wyoming               272,618              271,941                   63                   614

Data Created: February 25, 2011

Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011

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. 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.