This is somewhat misleading: It&#x27;s not exempt statewide for all employees in those locales, only for certain employees like teachers and firefighters who are paying into alternate pension systems.<p>The headline number is 6MM people aren&#x27;t paying in, but the combined population of those states is almost 112MM and the total population is 319MM. It&#x27;s a substantial number, I suppose, but not like 30% of the workforce.