In 2023, around 19.58 million people were working for state and local governments in the United States. This is much higher than the number of federal government (civilian) employees, which stood at about 2.87 million people in that year.

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As of March 2023, there were about 7.8 million government employees working in elementary and secondary education in the United States. Additionally, approximately 527,064 people were employed in public welfare services in that year.

In 2023, about ** million people were full-time employees of state and local governments in the United States. In the same year, about four million people were part-time employees of state and local governments.

This statistic shows the number of people employed full-time by state and local governments in the United States in 2023, by job function. The elementary and secondary education sector was the area with the highest number of state and local government employees in 2023 with over *********** full-time employees.

As of October 2024, there were 133.89 million full-time employees in the United States. This is a slight decrease from the previous month, when there were 134.15 million full-time employees. The impact COVID-19 on employment In December 2019, the COVID-19 virus began its spread across the globe. Since being classified as a pandemic, the virus caused a global health crisis that has taken the lives of millions of people worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic changed many facets of society, most significantly, the economy. In the first years, many businesses across all industries were forced to shut down, with large numbers of employees being laid off. The economy continued its recovery in 2022 with the nationwide unemployment rate returning to a more normal 3.4 percent as of April 2023. Unemployment benefits Because so many people in the United States lost their jobs, record numbers of individuals applied for unemployment insurance for the first time. As an early response to this nation-wide upheaval, the government issued relief checks and extended the benefits paid by unemployment insurance. In May 2020, the amount of unemployment insurance benefits paid rose to 23.73 billion U.S. dollars. As of December 2022, this value had declined to 2.24 billion U.S. dollars.

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As of March 2023, a total of 174,531 people were employed by local governments in the United States to work in libraries. The largest function of employment by number of employees was primary and secondary education, with more than 7.7 million local government employees.

The total payroll costs for state government employees who worked in higher education in the United States amounted to around 12.43 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. For state government employees who worked in hospitals, the total payroll costs amounted to 3.05 billion U.S. dollars.

Government Payrolls in the United States increased by 73 thousand in June of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Government Payrolls - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

As of March 2023, about **** million people were employed by state governments in higher education in the United States. A further ******* people were employed by state governments in hospitals in that year.

In Norway, over ** percent of the population was employed in the government sector as of 2019. In general, Nordic countries employed the largest share of the working force in their governments. On the other hand, the employment in the Japanese government constituted **** percent of the total working population in 2019.

In 2021, the United States Department of Justice was the largest federal employer of full-time law enforcement employees in the United States, with 13,985 officers and 24,075 civilians employed in that year.

The total payroll costs for local government employees who worked in higher education in the United States amounted to around 2.02 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. Local government payroll costs for police protection amounted to about 6.32 billion U.S. dollars in that same year.

This study investigated a sample of federal civil service employees whose political activities were regulated by federal legislation. Questions probed the respondents' political interest and participation in the political process at various levels, their feelings of political efficacy, perceptions of the influence of their occupational role on their political activity and attitudes, their knowledge of the restrictions placed on them, and their evaluations of these restrictions. Many questions were replicated from the Survey Research Center's American National Election Studies (see AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES CUMULATIVE DATA FILE, 1948-1998 [ICPSR 8475]). Demographic variables include sex, race, place of birth, and family income

All Employees: Government: Federal Government in California was 252.50000 Thous. of Persons in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, All Employees: Government: Federal Government in California reached a record high of 385.00000 in May of 1990 and a record low of 241.70000 in April of 2014. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for All Employees: Government: Federal Government in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

All Employees: Government in Massachusetts was 472.60000 Thous. of Persons in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, All Employees: Government in Massachusetts reached a record high of 476.30000 in August of 2024 and a record low of 388.90000 in July of 1992. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for All Employees: Government in Massachusetts - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

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