2006 Public Employment Data State and Local Governments United States Total Total Full-time March Equivalent Total Payroll Full-time Response March Response Equivalent CV Rate Payroll CV Rate Function Employment (%) (%) ($) (%) (%) Total 16,135,699 0.27 81.77 60,741,155,413 0.26 82.05 Financial Administration 392,632 0.45 84.84 1,496,598,503 0.39 85.24 Other Government Administration 286,303 1.01 79.83 1,113,409,027 0.82 79.82 Judicial and Legal 419,969 0.33 85.17 1,814,765,817 0.25 86.66 Police Protection - Officers 685,612 0.35 78.16 3,379,735,118 0.32 78.65 Police - Other 233,665 0.61 77.19 810,356,110 0.49 77.67 Firefighters 301,550 0.65 75.28 1,537,272,353 0.49 75.26 Fire - Other 26,162 1.80 75.18 110,987,705 1.39 75.12 Correction 717,047 0.16 91.60 2,623,730,752 0.13 91.99 Highways 545,089 0.47 84.29 1,988,317,097 0.47 85.39 Air Transportation 45,934 1.05 78.76 196,548,576 0.85 79.35 Water Transport & Terminals 12,118 0.37 92.04 58,733,952 0.28 91.21 Public Welfare 510,841 0.32 87.92 1,717,637,254 0.29 88.09 Health 432,857 0.35 86.02 1,598,814,700 0.26 86.64 Hospitals 926,773 0.11 85.84 3,515,240,871 0.10 86.10 Social Insurance Administration 83,297 0.00 100.00 311,771,426 0.00 100.00 Solid Waste Management 109,392 1.13 76.76 376,309,567 0.80 78.40 Sewerage 127,525 1.02 78.26 509,333,932 0.85 78.46 Parks and Recreation 267,126 0.88 78.36 795,968,932 0.77 78.25 Housing & Community Development 114,100 0.57 82.85 435,015,454 0.63 82.82 Natural Resources 188,308 0.55 94.78 687,435,689 0.42 95.26 Water Supply 165,915 1.10 77.29 653,665,737 0.98 77.73 Electric Power 77,610 0.56 79.45 417,934,291 0.30 80.07 Gas Supply 12,632 0.83 74.73 45,790,032 0.48 71.02 Transit 228,013 0.24 87.04 1,035,244,400 0.18 89.10 Elem & Sec Instructional 4,615,672 0.54 74.47 18,255,653,933 0.58 73.60 Elem & Secondary - Other 2,029,651 1.05 73.19 4,930,889,708 1.20 71.82 Higher Ed Instructional 653,433 0.00 96.37 3,651,398,933 0.00 96.24 Higher Ed - Other 1,235,386 0.00 97.23 4,066,103,502 0.00 97.33 Other Education 91,118 0.00 100.00 353,156,608 0.00 100.00 Local Libraries 128,653 0.86 79.31 378,066,867 0.71 78.49 Liquor Stores 7,493 0.00 100.00 20,579,457 0.00 100.00 Other and Unallocable 463,823 0.64 85.97 1,854,689,110 0.53 87.73