2004 Public Employment Data
State and Local Governments
MISSISSIPPI

Population Estimate (July 2004) 2,902,966

                                                                                                      Full-time
                                                                             Total                    Equivalent
                                         Full-time                           March                    Employment
                                         Equivalent           CV            Payroll            CV     per 10,000
Function                                 Employment           (%)             ($)              (%)    Population

Total                                       188,369          0.90        486,293,047          0.68        648.88
Financial administration                      3,582          3.28          9,358,246          2.24         12.34
Other government administration               2,710          2.65          7,705,239          2.53          9.34
Judicial and Legal                            2,657          4.98          8,510,782          3.01          9.15
Persons with power of arrest                  6,211          2.71         16,770,658          2.39         21.40
Police - Other                                2,417          2.73          5,193,766          2.27          8.33
Firefighters                                  3,437          0.60          8,988,777          0.51         11.84
Fire - Other                                    128         11.74            330,728         10.63          0.44
Correction                                    5,924          1.61         12,251,884          1.32         20.41
Highways                                      8,135          1.67         17,288,002          1.64         28.02
Air transportation                              159          0.00            354,960          0.00          0.55
Water transport and canals                      125          0.00            396,342          0.00          0.43
Public Welfare                                3,229          0.44          6,889,588          0.27         11.12
Health                                        3,214          0.41          8,992,874          0.30         11.07
Hospitals                                    29,426          0.25         82,633,719          0.14        101.37
Social insurance administration               1,064          0.00          2,854,620          0.00          3.67
Solid waste management                        1,033          6.15          1,795,108          5.64          3.56
Sewerage                                        622          1.63          1,398,775          1.51          2.14
Parks and recreation                          1,441          2.93          2,747,353          2.08          4.96
Housing and community developmen                889          1.20          2,346,623          1.10          3.06
Natural resources                             3,797          2.32          9,395,090          1.23         13.08
Water supply                                  1,304          3.44          2,821,342          2.91          4.49
Electric power                                  576          1.55          1,580,693          1.19          1.98
Gas supply                                      216          0.00            516,843          0.00          0.74
Transit                                         131          0.00            249,396          0.00          0.45
Elem & Sec Instructional                     50,804          1.94        137,628,517          1.84        175.01
Elem & Sec  - Other                          22,975          5.56         34,259,525          5.50         79.14
Higher Ed Instructional                       9,130          0.00         43,466,607          0.00         31.45
Higher Ed - Other                            16,293          0.00         42,554,471          0.00         56.13
Other education                               1,589          0.00          4,556,959          0.00          5.47
Libraries                                       834          5.13          1,416,233          5.79          2.87
State liquor stores                             120          0.00            288,174          0.00          0.41
All other and unallocable                     4,197          1.88         10,751,153          1.35         14.46