California has 12 percent of the nation’s population, but only 11.1 percent of its state and local government workers, a new Census Bureau report reveals.
However, those workers received 14.4 percent of the nation’s state and local payroll in March 2014, the month chosen by the bureau for its snapshot.
The latest result from the bureau’s annual survey of state and local government employees confirms a long-standing trend – that California has a below-average number of people on its public payrolls but above-average costs.
Nationally, state and local governments employed the full-time equivalent of 16.2 million workers in March, 2014, and paid them $73.2 billion, the Census Bureau calculated, with the corresponding numbers in California 1.8 million and $10.5 billion.
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