Table 6. Pension Obligations of State Public Employee Defined Benefit Retirement Systems

by State:

Fiscal Year 2008

State Covered Payroll Pension Obligations

United States 535,940,463                                                 2,912,759,428

Alabama                      9,741,090                                    38,672,048

Alaska                      2,167,195                                    13,843,049

Arizona                      9,077,137                                    39,716,096

Arkansas                      4,046,961                                    22,606,170

California                    75,318,014                                  459,604,787

Colorado                      6,828,371                                    53,039,366

Connecticut                      4,346,450                                    43,443,704

Delaware                      1,711,473                                       6,549,856

Florida                    26,385,768                                  118,870,513

Georgia                    12,163,149                                    71,208,346

Hawaii                      3,807,611                                    14,121,782

Idaho                      2,584,600                                    11,284,300

Illinois                    21,880,435                                  143,306,307

Indiana                      9,423,936                                    34,674,500

Iowa                      6,381,860                                    27,189,868

Kansas                      5,949,228                                    18,984,915

Kentucky                      7,906,984                                    43,801,336

Louisiana                      6,656,846                                    37,640,943

Maine                      1,991,200                                    13,674,900

Maryland                    10,687,531                                    50,571,035

Massachusetts                    10,421,286                                    64,158,684

Michigan                    13,408,000                                    73,861,300

Minnesota                      7,981,015                                    57,645,154

Mississippi                      5,583,303                                    29,311,777

Missouri                    10,043,516                                    55,682,714

Montana                      1,801,475                                       9,725,168

Nebraska                      1,819,095                                       8,667,784

Nevada                      5,194,400                                    30,501,845

New Hampshire                      2,315,154                                       7,868,469

New Jersey                    24,294,384                                  117,982,301

New Mexico                      4,471,824                                    26,899,138

New York                    38,533,128                                  217,376,452

North Carolina                    17,516,953                                    70,565,112

North Dakota                      1,058,385                                       4,067,867

Ohio                    15,262,760                                  181,760,812

Oklahoma                      6,021,523                                    33,457,950

Oregon                      7,721,800                                    52,871,200

Pennsylvania                    18,786,691                                  102,430,022

Rhode Island                      1,939,940                                    12,358,028

South Carolina                      8,106,291                                    37,797,624

South Dakota                      1,363,400                                       7,020,012

(Thousand dollars)
Tennessee                      7,824,830                                    32,715,771

Texas                    46,443,666                                  177,155,764

Utah                      4,487,007                                    22,675,051

Vermont                          986,000                                       3,272,000

Virginia                    13,834,000                                    58,116,000

Washington                    14,209,000                                    54,711,000

West Virginia                      2,109,963                                    12,362,087

Wisconsin                    11,720,000                                    80,079,000

Wyoming                      1,625,835                                       6,859,521

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.