Table 5. Number and Membership of State Public

Employee Retirement Systems by State:

Fiscal Year 2007

Total

Active

Members

Inactive 

Members

United States             222       16,790,948     12,820,565     3,970,383                   6,477,038

Alabama                 4            253,989           226,527           27,462                      101,808

Alaska                 4              53,212             45,181             8,031                         42,300

Arizona                 4            468,926           256,983         211,943                      104,313

Arkansas                 6            157,565           131,820           25,745                         51,060

California                 5         1,852,768        1,395,802         456,966                      798,772

Colorado                 2            330,710           193,244         137,466                         83,047

Connecticut                 6            126,690           115,093           11,597                         71,059

Delaware                 1              43,738             42,465             1,273                         21,886

Florida                 1            680,972           598,648           82,324                      264,770

Georgia                 9            561,393           359,486         201,907                      129,871

Hawaii                 1              70,805             65,251             5,554                         33,118

Idaho                 2              75,529             65,851             9,678                         29,684

Illinois                 6            770,357           475,255         295,102                      278,192

Indiana                 8            277,210           227,787           49,423                      104,130

Iowa                 4            232,493           169,917           62,576                         89,892

Kansas                 1            181,892           144,227           37,665                         65,765

Kentucky                 6            319,136           224,359           94,777                      117,950

Louisiana               14            277,738           206,700           71,038                      138,142

Maine                 1              59,912             52,060             7,852                         33,586

Maryland                 2            251,465           198,949           52,516                      109,598

Massachusetts               13            244,858           205,101           39,757                      113,365

Michigan                 6            394,076           366,570           27,506                      234,528

Minnesota                 8            498,722           288,557         210,165                      144,902

Mississippi                 4            286,856           163,617         123,239                         73,708

Missouri               10            283,288           237,695           45,593                      113,044

Montana                 9              72,384             51,644           20,740                         30,481

Nebraska                 5              72,275             50,548           21,727                         15,250

Nevada                 2            114,759           103,755           11,004                         36,065

New Hampshire                 2              55,574             50,857             4,717                         21,283

New Jersey                 7            531,495           468,024           63,471                      232,282

New Mexico                 5            152,364           119,182           33,182                         53,327

New York                 2            937,366           822,059         115,307                      483,758

North Carolina                 6            580,782           496,235           84,547                      195,490

North Dakota                 2              32,730             28,149             4,581                         12,549

Ohio                 5         1,175,453           692,035         483,418                      396,192

Oklahoma                 6            170,530           150,324           20,206                         82,101

Oregon                 1            217,061           164,548           52,513                      104,256

Pennsylvania                 3            466,868           390,242           76,626                      278,715

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 2007

Total

Active

Members

Inactive 

State Members

Number of 

systems

Membership

Total

beneficiaries

receiving periodic

benefit payments

Rhode Island                 1              42,354             35,646             6,708                         22,927

South Carolina                 4            371,462           209,420         162,042                      107,800

South Dakota                 2              51,315             37,310           14,005                         25,166

Tennessee                 1            238,257           211,287           26,970                      102,563

Texas                 7         1,427,827        1,227,089         200,738                      418,535

Utah                 6            129,983             99,589           30,394                         38,796

Vermont                 3              32,935             25,252             7,683                         11,117

Virginia                 1            358,908           326,845           32,063                      127,487

Washington                 6            288,112           247,717           40,395                      122,084

West Virginia                 1              72,113             55,885           16,228                         48,303

Wisconsin                 1            401,735           262,856         138,879                      142,992

Wyoming                 6              42,006             36,922             5,084                         19,029

Data Created: February 25, 2011

Data Last Revised: April 22, 2011

Source: 2007 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.