2002 Public Employment Data
Local Governments
United States Total

Revised October 2004

Population (2002) 287,975,763

                                                                                                      Full-time
                                                                             Total                    Equivalent
                                         Full-time                           March                    Employment
                                         Equivalent           CV            Payroll            CV     per 10,000
Function                                 Employment           (%)             ($)              (%)    Population

Total                                    11,480,568          0.00     37,775,108,785          0.00        398.66
Financial administration                    213,564          0.00        705,405,678          0.00          7.42
Other government administration             216,148          0.00        738,989,083          0.00          7.51
Judicial and Legal                          245,670          0.00        892,537,479          0.00          8.53
Police with power of arrest                 597,792          0.00      2,665,659,949          0.00         20.76
Police - other                              185,024          0.00        555,923,646          0.00          6.42
Firefighters                                282,084          0.00      1,272,228,703          0.00          9.80
Fire - other                                 24,678          0.00         94,491,986          0.00          0.86
Correction                                  241,516          0.00        822,439,881          0.00          8.39
Highways                                    296,977          0.00        919,657,836          0.00         10.31
Air transportation                           40,948          0.00        156,850,648          0.00          1.42
Water transport and canals                    7,127          0.00         30,936,770          0.00          0.25
Public Welfare                              284,276          0.00        872,068,873          0.00          9.87
Health                                      252,326          0.00        803,386,365          0.00          8.76
Hospitals                                   507,144          0.00      1,686,554,144          0.00         17.61
Solid waste management                      110,648          0.00        341,740,327          0.00          3.84
Sewerage                                    123,938          0.00        435,760,386          0.00          4.30
Parks and recreation                        226,371          0.00        581,419,050          0.00          7.86
Housing and community developmen            117,766          0.00        391,071,069          0.00          4.09
Natural resources                            36,961          0.00        115,344,128          0.00          1.28
Water supply                                158,675          0.00        547,924,144          0.00          5.51
Electric power                               72,781          0.00        330,779,030          0.00          2.53
Gas supply                                   10,513          0.00         34,052,786          0.00          0.37
Transit                                     198,890          0.00        779,750,006          0.00          6.91
Elem & Sec Instructional                  4,400,227          0.00     15,446,630,778          0.00        152.80
Elem & Sec - Other                        1,930,852          0.00      4,271,432,291          0.00         67.05
Higher Ed Instructional                     134,793          0.00        598,885,272          0.00          4.68
Higher Ed - Other                           185,661          0.00        526,859,050          0.00          6.45
Local Libraries                             124,462          0.00        319,798,759          0.00          4.32
All other and unallocable                   252,756          0.00        836,530,668          0.00          8.78