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Local Government Employees by Function

There were 201,271 full-time equivalent employees in 2008.

Pie and bar graph showing percentages of local government employment by category

Local Gov't. Employees
by Function, 2008		 Number of Employees Percentage of All
Local Gov't. Employees
K-12 Education 120,964 60.1%
Health, Human Services, & Housing 26,367 13.1
Police, Fire, & Corrections 21,133 10.5
Transportation 8,051 4.0
Other 24,756 12.3
Total 201,271 100.0%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, December 2009

For more on local government employees, see the publication Compensation Limits for Local Government Employees (PDF).

Originally published January 2011.