by Calculated Danger on 11/22/2024 08:11:00 AM
The brand new administration is speaking about reducing the variety of federal authorities workers.
This raises the query of how many individuals are employed by the Federal authorities?
The next information is from the BLS and doesn’t embody army personnel.
The primary graph reveals complete authorities employment (Federal, State and Native).
Click on on graph for bigger picture.
First, most authorities workers are native (cops, hearth division, and many others), adopted by state workers. There are nearly 15 million native authorities workers and 5.5 million state authorities workers.
Roughly half of the state and native workers work in training (lecturers!)
The Federal authorities has about 3.0 million workers. Observe that the spikes in Federal employment are for decennial Census.
The second graph reveals complete Federal workers, and Federal workers excluding postal staff since 1960.
As soon as once more, the spikes are the decennial Census!
At present there are simply over 600 thousand postal staff, and just below 2.4 million different federal workers.
The Federal authorities has outsourced some capabilities to the non-public sector.
The third graph reveals Federal employment as a p.c of complete employment.
Federal employment was round 4.3% of complete employment in 1960 and is now all the way down to 1.9%.
Just a few numbers and graphs to bear in mind throughout the dialogue of federal employment cuts.
