2004 Public Employment Data
State and Local Governments
IOWA

Population Estimate (July 2004) 2,954,451

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

Total                                       184,552          2.15        582,239,966          1.97        624.66
Financial administration                      3,988          4.58         12,891,431          3.62         13.50
Other government administration               3,360          8.68         10,849,800          7.08         11.37
Judicial and Legal                            3,474          9.18         13,959,082          7.11         11.76
Persons with power of arrest                  5,654          8.35         22,218,164          8.10         19.14
Police - Other                                1,983          3.21          5,625,619          2.05          6.71
Firefighters                                  1,865          7.49          7,322,383          7.90          6.31
Fire - Other                                     74          0.00            203,934          0.00          0.25
Correction                                    4,473          1.08         15,557,097          0.71         15.14
Highways                                      9,625         10.78         31,507,253         10.50         32.58
Air transportation                              206          0.00            715,367          0.00          0.70
Water transport and canals                        0          0.00                  0          0.00          0.00
Public Welfare                                4,690         12.58         14,580,481         11.01         15.87
Health                                        3,171         16.46          9,203,087         15.94         10.73
Hospitals                                    16,868          0.00         55,030,657          0.00         57.09
Social insurance administration                 694          0.00          2,778,854          0.00          2.35
Solid waste management                          692          7.62          1,868,815          3.76          2.34
Sewerage                                      1,074          5.47          3,646,434          4.07          3.64
Parks and recreation                          2,603          9.74          6,932,861          7.00          8.81
Housing and community developmen                531          5.83          1,876,189          7.19          1.80
Natural resources                             1,827          1.04          6,681,956          0.62          6.18
Water supply                                  1,618          6.26          5,169,164          5.43          5.48
Electric power                                  804          0.40          2,815,963          2.41          2.72
Gas supply                                       92          0.00            307,178          0.00          0.31
Transit                                         779          0.00          1,986,461          0.00          2.64
Elem & Sec Instructional                     54,345          2.77        157,404,417          1.93        183.94
Elem & Sec  - Other                          20,280          5.20         38,965,217          4.24         68.64
Higher Ed Instructional                      11,078          0.00         56,980,407          0.00         37.50
Higher Ed - Other                            21,130          0.00         70,195,192          0.00         71.52
Other education                               1,196          0.00          4,734,060          0.00          4.05
Libraries                                     1,616          5.85          3,555,286          2.10          5.47
State liquor stores                               0          0.00                  0          0.00          0.00
All other and unallocable                     4,762          5.42         16,677,157          3.97         16.12