2002 Public Employment Data
State and 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                                    15,708,404          0.00     52,618,285,581          0.00        545.48
Financial administration                    381,891          0.00      1,285,478,242          0.00         13.26
Other government administration             271,333          0.00        938,920,570          0.00          9.42
Judicial and Legal                          405,713          0.00      1,556,707,241          0.00         14.09
Police with power of arrest                 661,165          0.00      2,953,646,611          0.00         22.96
Police - other                              226,022          0.00        696,887,689          0.00          7.85
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                                  704,807          0.00      2,321,049,677          0.00         24.47
Highways                                    545,249          0.00      1,778,423,378          0.00         18.93
Air transportation                           44,156          0.00        169,954,541          0.00          1.53
Water transport and canals                   11,602          0.00         48,142,690          0.00          0.40
Public Welfare                              525,493          0.00      1,614,128,941          0.00         18.25
Health                                      428,671          0.00      1,406,739,264          0.00         14.89
Hospitals                                   916,480          0.00      2,996,588,570          0.00         31.82
Social insurance administration              88,786          0.00        304,330,187          0.00          3.08
Solid waste management                      112,492          0.00        349,931,215          0.00          3.91
Sewerage                                    125,947          0.00        445,164,666          0.00          4.37
Parks and recreation                        262,616          0.00        679,389,671          0.00          9.12
Housing and community developmen            117,766          0.00        391,071,069          0.00          4.09
Natural resources                           189,491          0.00        620,417,710          0.00          6.58
Water supply                                159,436          0.00        551,331,133          0.00          5.54
Electric power                               76,663          0.00        351,901,257          0.00          2.66
Gas supply                                   10,513          0.00         34,052,786          0.00          0.37
Transit                                     231,311          0.00        928,426,832          0.00          8.03
Elem & Sec Instructional                  4,439,677          0.00     15,597,557,644          0.00        154.17
Elem & Sec - Other                        1,946,663          0.00      4,310,937,083          0.00         67.60
Higher Ed Instructional                     629,832          0.00      3,118,338,865          0.00         21.87
Higher Ed - Other                         1,198,187          0.00      3,475,979,203          0.00         41.61
Other education                              98,098          0.00        337,618,542          0.00          3.41
Local Libraries                             125,064          0.00        321,264,875          0.00          4.34
State liquor stores                           7,268          0.00         18,412,983          0.00          0.25
All other and unallocable                   459,250          0.00      1,648,771,757          0.00         15.95