Table 5. Number and Membership of State Public

Employee Retirement Systems by State:

Fiscal Year 2009

Total

Active

Members

Inactive 

Members

United States             222       17,436,114     13,087,349     4,348,765                   6,808,000

Alabama                 4            261,339           232,966           28,373                      106,361

Alaska                 4              52,372             43,719             8,653                         34,714

Arizona                 4            490,263           258,627         231,636                      116,082

Arkansas                 6            160,848           132,329           28,519                         66,097

California                 5         1,920,900        1,396,440         524,460                      779,637

Colorado                 2            360,728           201,524         159,204                         87,174

Connecticut                 6            125,188           112,835           12,353                         83,002

Delaware                 1              44,795             42,878             1,917                         23,286

Florida                 1            651,824           572,887           78,937                      304,610

Georgia                 9            581,211           365,274         215,937                      140,046

Hawaii                 1              72,436             66,589             5,847                         36,271

Idaho                 2              77,937             67,862           10,075                         32,268

Illinois                 6            801,683           491,283         310,400                      292,907

Indiana                 8            290,992           229,330           61,662                      109,175

Iowa                 4            205,115           172,465           32,650                         94,226

Kansas                 1            197,822           156,073           41,749                         71,268

Kentucky                 6            326,728           221,130         105,598                      135,907

Louisiana               14            301,930           213,187           88,743                      139,493

Maine                 1              58,249             50,477             7,772                         35,368

Maryland                 2            254,931           202,537           52,394                      117,331

Massachusetts               13            248,252           207,224           41,028                      119,011

Michigan                 6            371,760           344,094           27,666                      243,675

Minnesota                 8            505,070           286,153         218,917                      155,159

Mississippi                 4            294,541           167,901         126,640                         79,085

Missouri               10            280,721           229,472           51,249                      123,832

Montana                 9              74,371             53,350           21,021                         32,687

Nebraska                 5              86,903             63,069           23,834                         15,970

Nevada                 2            117,069           105,462           11,607                         42,207

New Hampshire                 2              57,831             51,087             6,744                         24,549

New Jersey                 7            595,443           524,107           71,336                      247,461

New Mexico                 5            155,286           122,026           33,260                         57,782

New York                 2            960,402           841,361         119,041                      500,134

North Carolina                 6            626,847           491,608         135,239                      210,030

North Dakota                 2              34,702             29,650             5,052                         13,606

Ohio                 5         1,260,690           696,160         564,530                      396,276

Oklahoma                 6            166,549           152,429           14,120                         87,698

Oregon                 1            214,465           171,068           43,397                      108,222

Pennsylvania                 3            512,134           392,889         119,245                      285,831

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 2009

Total

Active

Members

Inactive 

State Members

Number of 

systems

Membership

Total

beneficiaries

receiving periodic

benefit payments

Rhode Island                 1              29,897             24,933             4,964                         20,905

South Carolina                 4            386,230           219,582         166,648                      116,327

South Dakota                 2              52,582             38,596           13,986                         20,075

Tennessee                 1            244,040           213,276           30,764                      107,702

Texas                 7         1,559,639        1,351,195         208,444                      457,736

Utah                 6            139,856           106,261           33,595                         42,138

Vermont                 3              33,109             25,427             7,682                         12,244

Virginia                 1            380,194           346,929           33,265                      141,746

Washington                 6            277,094           238,867           38,227                      124,076

West Virginia                 1              73,787             56,506           17,281                         52,077

Wisconsin                 1            413,029           265,721         147,308                      144,033

Wyoming                 6              46,330             40,534             5,796                         20,503

Data Created: February 25, 2011

Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011

Source: 2009 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.