Table 5. Number and Membership of State Public

Employee Retirement Systems by State:

Fiscal Year 2008

Total

Active

Members

Inactive 

Members

United States             222       17,215,183     13,073,495     4,141,688                   6,468,158

Alabama                 4            259,117           231,333           27,784                      107,831

Alaska                 4              60,599             43,960           16,639                         39,978

Arizona                 4            485,523           258,949         226,574                      109,369

Arkansas                 6            157,718           130,775           26,943                         57,007

California                 5         1,903,103        1,407,842         495,261                      806,889

Colorado                 2            347,200           198,439         148,761                         84,766

Connecticut                 6            117,490           114,045             3,445                         72,284

Delaware                 1              44,656             42,119             2,537                         22,450

Florida                 1            669,186           590,249           78,937                      308,264

Georgia                 9            571,215           364,118         207,097                      133,834

Hawaii                 1              72,436             66,589             5,847                         36,301

Idaho                 2              76,927             66,836           10,091                         30,981

Illinois                 6            787,100           483,817         303,283                      285,546

Indiana                 8            288,153           229,319           58,834                      108,083

Iowa                 4            237,187           172,576           64,611                         92,436

Kansas                 1            195,187           153,804           41,383                         67,102

Kentucky                 6            326,308           224,789         101,519                      128,314

Louisiana               14            300,184           213,277           86,907                      135,633

Maine                 1              68,418             60,225             8,193                         35,760

Maryland                 2            254,260           201,953           52,307                      113,700

Massachusetts               13            249,033           205,484           43,549                      115,941

Michigan                 6            373,934           346,278           27,656                      242,900

Minnesota                 8            506,853           286,218         220,635                      150,357

Mississippi                 4            292,703           166,576         126,127                         76,474

Missouri               10            289,915           242,520           47,395                      118,413

Montana                 9              73,672             52,308           21,364                         31,916

Nebraska                 5              86,903             63,069           23,834                         16,066

Nevada                 2            117,794           106,168           11,626                         38,489

New Hampshire                 2              55,798             51,043             4,755                         22,905

New Jersey                 7            582,416           511,080           71,336                      240,714

New Mexico                 5            153,627           120,475           33,152                         56,864

New York                 2            957,185           896,818           60,367                      495,783

North Carolina                 6            607,839           508,642           99,197                         39,196

North Dakota                 2              33,439             28,611             4,828                         12,992

Ohio                 5         1,196,477           692,210         504,267                      381,786

Oklahoma                 6            165,672           151,638           14,034                         85,109

Oregon                 1            213,808           167,452           46,356                      106,423

Pennsylvania                 3            517,346           390,614         126,732                      284,624

State

Number of 

systems

Membership

Total

beneficiaries

receiving periodic

benefit payments
Table 5. Number and Membership of State Public

Employee Retirement Systems by State:

Fiscal Year 2008

Total

Active

Members

Inactive 

State Members

Number of 

systems

Membership

Total

beneficiaries

receiving periodic

benefit payments

Rhode Island                 1              42,117             35,274             6,843                         23,419

South Carolina                 4            378,516           213,938         164,578                      112,106

South Dakota                 2              52,113             37,707           14,406                         19,459

Tennessee                 1            246,645           215,645           31,000                      103,149

Texas                 7         1,482,928        1,284,201         198,727                      429,442

Utah                 6            134,191           102,009           32,182                         40,510

Vermont                 3              33,390             25,546             7,844                         12,873

Virginia                 1            365,887           333,158           32,729                      133,119

Washington                 6            286,544           245,167           41,377                      123,060

West Virginia                 1              49,293             35,873           13,420                         20,726

Wisconsin                 1            401,735           262,856         138,879                      137,118

Wyoming                 6              45,443             39,903             5,540                         19,697

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.