by Calculated Danger on 11/22/2024 08:11:00 AM
The brand new administration is speaking about slicing the variety of federal authorities staff.
This raises the query of how many individuals are employed by the Federal authorities?
The next knowledge is from the BLS and doesn’t embrace navy personnel.
The primary graph reveals complete authorities employment (Federal, State and Native).
Click on on graph for bigger picture.
First, most authorities staff are native (law enforcement officials, fireplace division, and many others), adopted by state staff. There are nearly 15 million native authorities staff and 5.5 million state authorities staff.
Roughly half of the state and native staff work in training (academics!)
The Federal authorities has about 3.0 million staff. Word that the spikes in Federal employment are for decennial Census.
The second graph reveals complete Federal staff, and Federal staff excluding postal employees since 1960.
As soon as once more, the spikes are the decennial Census!
Presently there are simply over 600 thousand postal employees, and slightly below 2.4 million different federal staff.
The Federal authorities has outsourced some features to the personal 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 right down to 1.9%.
Just a few numbers and graphs to bear in mind throughout the dialogue of federal employment cuts.
