re: #228 Obdicut

Across the board, and it was the BLS. It took me awhile to construct, though, and I don’t think I have all the links. Here’s the basic, though.

[Link: www.bls.gov…]

9,748,080 government workers, all total, excluding teachers, giving a rate of about 4% of all jobs. That’s excluding, however, workers who are state workers in the schools, hospitals, and legislative/judicial branches (police are not part of that) which about doubles the number.

My only issue with this:

I have a college degree, and worked as a high-level administrator and part of the executive staff of a state agency.

I resent the moniker government “worker”.
When anyone working anywhere else is called an “employee”.

Sorry.
This has bothered me for a gajillion years.
If you work for the government, it just seems your professionalism will be demeaned.