In the U.S., 15.1% of workers are employed in the public sector.
The number of Americans working for federal, state, or local governments fell from 22.5 million to 22.4 million over the last decade.The U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in April, the 103rd month of consecutive job growth – by far the longest stretch in U.S. history. The job growth has been driven almost exclusively by the private sector. Public sector employment, meanwhile, has declined slightly, as the number of Americans working for federal, state, or local governments fell from 22.
Despite a brief federal hiring freeze imposed by President Donald Trump in 2017 and a federal employee salary freeze the following year, federal government employment grew by 1.2% between 2008 and 2018. The net decline in government employment took place at the state and local level. In the face of falling tax revenue and budget constraints, state and local government payrolls have been slashed in recent years.
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