Table 3. Expenditures of State Public Employee Retirement Systems

by State:

Fiscal Year 2009

State Total payments Benefits Withdrawals

Other

payments

United States       161,686,475      151,850,339     3,282,212        6,553,924

Alabama           2,345,244           2,235,727           75,122             34,395

Alaska           1,211,596           1,140,122           16,120             55,354

Arizona           2,536,348           2,336,076         143,343             56,929

Arkansas           1,151,919           1,064,651           11,157             76,111

California         23,615,500         22,212,331         371,689        1,031,480

Colorado           3,168,263           2,792,002         147,629           228,632

Connecticut           2,579,716           2,554,940           23,895                   881

Delaware               431,957              405,291             3,450             23,216

Florida           5,669,558           ‐ 5,669,558                  ‐                    

Georgia           3,894,515           3,771,435           56,843             66,237

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

Idaho               568,407               ‐ 522,133                              46,274

Illinois           7,940,064           7,450,969         143,667           345,428

Indiana           1,693,360           1,572,261           49,030             72,069

Iowa           1,385,185           1,318,363           35,230             31,592

Kansas           1,142,708           1,065,317           42,929             34,462

Kentucky           2,864,756           2,753,502           38,836             72,418

Louisiana           3,015,331           2,812,469         100,690           102,172

Maine               701,309              622,605           45,612             33,092

Maryland           2,347,061           2,324,174           22,324                   563

Massachusetts           3,455,142           3,434,872             7,754             12,516

Michigan           4,979,693           4,518,683           39,883           421,127

Minnesota           3,261,922           3,102,164           56,778           102,980

Mississippi           1,667,123           1,525,234           70,143             71,746

Missouri           2,990,827           2,810,513           62,081           118,233

Montana               502,748              456,560           19,290             26,898

Nebraska               309,280              308,445                155                   680

Nevada           1,266,879           1,190,033           18,586             58,260

New Hampshire               490,828              456,588           24,204             10,036

New Jersey           7,014,775           6,818,568         143,753             52,454

New Mexico           1,305,314           1,224,190           61,369             19,755

New York         11,518,754         11,022,304           17,080           479,370

North Carolina           4,004,061           3,862,811         121,022             20,228

North Dakota               202,561              185,136             7,779                9,646

Ohio         11,126,107         10,076,775         397,164           652,168

Oklahoma           1,744,659           1,569,153           88,612             86,894

Oregon           3,222,318           2,790,218           36,549           395,551

Pennsylvania           7,291,173           6,880,677           36,236           374,260

Rhode Island               687,704               ‐ 687,704                  ‐                    

South Carolina           2,186,231           2,001,313           87,668             97,250

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

by State:

Fiscal Year 2009

State Total payments Benefits Withdrawals

Other

payments

(Thousand dollars)

South Dakota               334,423              306,769           24,225                3,429

Tennessee           1,010,467           ‐ 1,010,467                  ‐                    

Texas           9,630,849           8,993,245         460,600           177,004

Utah               894,275              863,530             5,177             25,568

Vermont               185,693              170,097             2,627             12,969

Virginia           3,091,535           2,733,223           91,348           266,964

Washington           2,909,111           2,568,727           42,589           297,795

West Virginia               774,140              749,156           16,565                8,419

Wisconsin           4,217,330           ‐ 3,822,544                            394,786

Wyoming               309,318              294,401           11,740                3,177

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.