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.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Federal (CES9091000001) from Jan 1939 to Jun 2025 about establishment survey, federal, government, employment, and USA.

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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.

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.

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The OPM Federal Workforce Competency Initiative Phase I was a survey conducted to gather data on a core set of tasks and competencies important to performing white collar jobs in the Federal Government. The dataset includes ratings of tasks and competencies collected from Federal employees and supervisors. OPM Employee Services has a pending release to make a portion of the results from the survey public.

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.

The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).'

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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.

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.

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.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Federal, Except U.S. Postal Service (CEU9091100001) from Jan 1939 to Jun 2025 about establishment survey, federal, government, services, employment, and USA.

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.

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.

Federal Employee Count: 86 years of historical data from 1939 to 2025.

In 2024, the Department of Veteran Affairs had the largest workforce of any executive department or major government agency, with over ******* employees. The Department of Homeland Security was the second-largest federal employer, with over ******* employees in 2024.

The EEOC collects workforce data from employers with more than 100 employees, including State and Local governments. Federal agencies use the report to develop new strategies in furtherance of EEO practices, helping jurisdictions to establish benchmarks and provide guidance in the evaluation of internal programs to ensure equal employment opportunity. The City of New York is legally mandated to submit the federal EEO-4 report every two years. The report provides a summary of a jurisdiction's workforce composition by agency function, job category, salary, race/ethnicity, and gender.

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.