2003 Public Employment Data
State and Local Governments
MISSISSIPPI

Population Estimate (July, 2003) 2,881,281

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

Total                                       186,130          0.51        451,697,979          0.48        649.28
Financial administration                      3,709          4.12          9,255,772          2.64         12.94
Other government administration               2,868          4.26          7,839,424          3.39         10.00
Judicial and Legal                            2,632          3.12          8,043,129          2.05          9.18
Police with power of arrest                   6,494          1.62         16,880,975          1.14         22.65
Police - other                                2,479          5.00          5,156,871          4.22          8.65
Firefighters                                  3,310          0.42          8,543,920          0.45         11.55
Fire - other                                    107          0.00            271,556          0.83          0.37
Correction                                    5,987          2.53         11,998,143          1.79         20.88
Highways                                      8,342          1.03         17,287,463          0.51         29.10
Air transportation                              160          4.24            425,376          8.13          0.56
Water transport and canals                      281          0.00            759,347          0.00          0.98
Public Welfare                                3,226          0.78          6,840,835          0.40         11.25
Health                                        3,258          0.32          8,854,116          0.28         11.36
Hospitals                                    29,439          0.48         77,963,586          0.27        102.69
Social insurance administration               1,052          0.00          2,772,884          0.00          3.67
Solid waste management                        1,201          5.58          1,993,512          4.73          4.19
Sewerage                                        634          0.21          1,366,336          1.47          2.21
Parks and recreation                          1,595          4.50          2,885,918          1.78          5.56
Housing and community developmen                957          0.42          2,257,715          0.20          3.34
Natural resources                             3,744          2.55          9,171,197          1.68         13.06
Water supply                                  1,412          5.53          2,899,143          2.59          4.93
Electric power                                  525          0.69          1,431,960          0.84          1.83
Gas supply                                      232          2.13            553,670          1.94          0.81
Transit                                         128          0.00            254,856          0.00          0.45
Elem & Sec Instructional                     49,284          2.18        116,527,458          1.90        171.92
Elem & Sec - Other                           21,502          4.14         31,228,612          3.96         75.01
Higher Ed Instructional                       8,913          0.00         40,516,605          0.00         31.09
Higher Ed - Other                            15,943          0.00         41,322,297          0.00         55.61
Other education                               1,549          0.00          4,280,808          0.00          5.40
Libraries                                       911          1.26          1,584,228          1.46          3.18
State liquor stores                             123          0.00            298,915          0.00          0.43
All other and unallocable                     4,133          3.74         10,231,352          2.32         14.42