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 information is from the BLS and doesn’t embrace army personnel.
The primary graph exhibits whole authorities employment (Federal, State and Native).
Click on on graph for bigger picture.
First, most authorities staff are native (cops, hearth division, and many others), adopted by state staff. There are virtually 15 million native authorities staff and 5.5 million state authorities staff.
Roughly half of the state and native staff work in schooling (lecturers!)
The Federal authorities has about 3.0 million staff. Observe that the spikes in Federal employment are for decennial Census.
The second graph exhibits whole Federal staff, and Federal staff excluding postal employees since 1960.
As soon as once more, the spikes are the decennial Census!
At present there are simply over 600 thousand postal employees, and just below 2.4 million different federal staff.
The Federal authorities has outsourced some capabilities to the non-public sector.
The third graph exhibits Federal employment as a p.c of whole employment.
Federal employment was round 4.3% of whole employment in 1960 and is now all the way down to 1.9%.
Just a few numbers and graphs to remember in the course of the dialogue of federal employment cuts.
