State and Local Government Employment and Payroll
March 2004
| Main State and Local Employment | 2004 State and Local Employment |
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State and Local Government Employment and Payroll March 2004 |
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Survey Content Definitions: Employment: |
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| Employment refers to all persons gainfully employed by
and performing services for a government. |
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| Employees: | |
| Employees include all persons paid for personal services
performed, including persons paid from federally funded programs, paid elected or
appointed officials, persons in a paid leave status, and persons paid on a per meeting,
annual, semiannual, or quarterly basis. Unpaid officials, pensioners, persons whose
work is performed on a fee basis, and contractors and their employees are excluded from
the count of employees. |
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| Full Time Employees: | |
| Full-time employees are defined to include
those persons whose hours of work represent full-time employment in their
employing government. |
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| Part Time Employees: | |
| Part-time employees are those persons who work less than
the standard number of hours for full-time work in their employing government. |
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| Full Time Equivalent: | |
| Full time equivalent (FTE) is a computed statistic representing
the number of full-time employees that could have been employed if the reported number of
hours worked by part-time employees had been worked by full-time employees. This statistic
is calculated separately for each function of a government by dividing the "part-time hours
paid" by the standard number of hours for full-time employees in the particular government
and then adding the resulting quotient to the number of full-time employees. |
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| Payroll: | |
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Payroll amounts represent gross payrolls for the 1-month period
of March (31 days). The gross payroll includes all salaries, wages, fees, commissions, bonuses,
or awards paid to employees during the pay period that includes the date of March 12. Payroll
amounts reported for a period other than 1 month are converted to represent an amount for the
month of March. All payroll figures are in current whole dollars and have not been adjusted for
inflation. Conversion of a reported payroll to a payroll amount that would have been paid during a 31-day month is accomplished by multiplying the reported payroll by an appropriate factor. For example, a 2-week payroll is multiplied by 2.214, a 1-week payroll is multiplied by 4.429, and a twice-a-month payroll is multiplied by 2. |
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| Part Time Hours: | |
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First collected during the October 1986 survey, these data represent the number of hours worked
by part-time employees during the pay period. Note: These data are not collected for publication but rather are used to calculate full-time equivalent employment data. |
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Questionnaire: |
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E-1
State Agencies |
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E-2
State Institutions of Higher Education |
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E-3
Special Districts and Local Agencies |
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E-4
Municipalities, Counties, Townships |
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E-5
Municipalities and Townships |
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E-6
School Systems |
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E-7
Major Special Districts and Agencies |
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E-9
Police Protection Agencies |
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