2004 Public Employment Data
State and Local Governments
TENNESSEE

Population Estimate (July 2004) 5,900,962

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

Total                                       317,514          0.78        912,036,161          0.61        538.07
Financial administration                      6,919          5.70         21,520,290          4.77         11.73
Other government administration               4,985         10.17         14,294,475          7.39          8.45
Judicial and Legal                            6,371          0.88         21,152,035          1.36         10.80
Persons with power of arrest                 13,408          2.83         40,915,200          5.24         22.72
Police - Other                                4,774          4.91         12,611,559          3.30          8.09
Firefighters                                  6,685          3.75         24,461,295          1.35         11.33
Fire - Other                                    360          1.34          1,421,026          0.13          0.61
Correction                                   12,956          1.05         34,265,776          0.83         21.96
Highways                                     11,418          3.28         26,796,908          2.91         19.35
Air transportation                              831          1.12          3,079,759          0.81          1.41
Water transport and canals                        7          0.00             29,406          0.00          0.01
Public Welfare                                7,610          1.02         18,782,846          0.50         12.90
Health                                        7,060          2.28         20,652,505          1.46         11.96
Hospitals                                    29,865          0.28         88,380,887          0.29         50.61
Social insurance administration               1,542          0.00          4,103,174          0.00          2.61
Solid waste management                        4,579          3.15         10,899,613          2.88          7.76
Sewerage                                      1,909          5.78          5,375,896          4.74          3.24
Parks and recreation                          4,625          4.48          9,615,781          3.79          7.84
Housing and community developmen              2,329          1.55          6,699,797          0.59          3.95
Natural resources                             3,999          3.37         11,043,096          1.98          6.78
Water supply                                  4,684          3.62         14,399,185          1.97          7.94
Electric power                                5,865          0.31         25,198,456          0.46          9.94
Gas supply                                    2,026          2.87          7,479,848          0.72          3.43
Transit                                       1,091          0.00          3,152,422          0.00          1.85
Elem & Sec Instructional                     87,889          2.09        280,374,633          1.74        148.94
Elem & Sec  - Other                          37,939          1.14         63,332,480          1.98         64.29
Higher Ed Instructional                      11,216          0.00         52,551,278          0.00         19.01
Higher Ed - Other                            23,311          0.00         59,083,433          0.00         39.50
Other education                               1,982          0.00          5,962,212          0.00          3.36
Libraries                                     1,518          2.51          3,601,077          1.63          2.57
State liquor stores                               0          0.00                  0          0.00          0.00
All other and unallocable                     7,761          5.64         20,799,813          3.41         13.15