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House Research home > Minnesota Government in Brief > Government Organization and Employment
There were 38,449 full-time employees in the executive branch as of July 2010.
(Does not include approximately 15,000 part-time or temporary employees or 1,141 employees who cannot be allocated to any of the occupational categories)
Professional: Any employee engaged in work predominantly intellectual and varied in character, as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work; involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in the theoretical principles and techniques of a field of science or learning, customarily acquired by study at an institution of higher education.
Managers & Supervisors: Positions having accountability for determining, securing, and allocating human, financial, and other resources needed to accomplish objectives.
Clerical, Office: Positions involving a wide variety of office skills needed to carry out office processes and procedures.
Technical/Service: Positions requiring a basic knowledge of the practice and procedures of a scientific or professional field; positions attending to the personal rather than production needs of a particular client group or the general public.
Craft/Labor: Positions involving manual work where the completion of formal apprenticeship, vocational school, or equivalent training are normally required; positions performing unskilled manual work requiring no special training and usually done with clearly defined procedures under class supervision or with specific directions.
Adopted from Minnesota Management and Budget.
Originally published January 2011.