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

by State:

Fiscal Year 2009

State Covered Payroll Pension Obligations

United States 563,464,329                                                 3,031,053,321

Alabama                      9,888,838                                    40,220,463

Alaska                      2,137,456                                    14,545,437

Arizona                      2,123,953                                    42,436,682

Arkansas                      4,186,370                                    24,033,978

California                    78,935,900                                  492,344,800

Colorado                      7,320,642                                    58,973,329

Connecticut                      3,960,982                                    21,291,667

Delaware                      1,753,129                                       6,827,006

Florida                    26,891,340                                  124,087,214

Georgia                    13,241,404                                    77,200,064

Hawaii                      4,319,621                                    14,210,740

Idaho                      2,689,460                                    11,807,545

Illinois                    22,865,840                                  152,046,679

Indiana                      9,685,373                                    36,074,979

Iowa                      6,740,316                                    28,819,517

Kansas                      6,226,526                                    20,106,787

Kentucky                      5,239,549                                    35,563,772

Louisiana                      8,656,843                                    48,749,368

Maine                      2,061,400                                    14,410,000

Maryland                    10,865,727                                    53,066,838

Massachusetts                    11,262,686                                    61,780,577

Michigan                    13,496,000                                    78,609,069

Minnesota                    11,899,218                                    60,602,082

Mississippi                      5,866,665                                    31,386,747

Missouri                    10,584,994                                    60,813,890

Montana                      1,855,277                                    10,304,575

Nebraska                      1,872,544                                       8,967,613

Nevada                      5,373,482                                    33,081,113

New Hampshire                      2,455,089                                       8,529,931

New Jersey                    25,179,385                                  125,805,870

New Mexico                      5,098,399                                    28,814,690

New York                    37,145,387                                  206,245,027

North Carolina                    18,311,670                                    73,613,092

North Dakota                      1,137,700                                       4,347,100

Ohio                    28,128,505                                  194,181,545

Oklahoma                      6,154,082                                    34,718,102

Oregon                      8,130,100                                    54,259,500

Pennsylvania                    19,056,291                                  106,813,932

Rhode Island                      2,144,032                                    12,587,700

South Carolina                      8,642,434                                    40,264,902

South Dakota                      1,450,682                                       7,387,406

(Thousand dollars)
Tennessee                      5,742,866                                    27,240,151

Texas                    51,865,656                                  192,543,270

Utah                      4,579,772                                    24,299,183

Vermont                      1,157,625                                       4,012,955

Virginia                    15,091,000                                    65,174,000

Washington                    13,212,900                                    59,758,500

West Virginia                      2,722,318                                    13,781,811

Wisconsin                    12,289,600                                    77,412,000

Wyoming                      1,767,301                                       6,900,123

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.