2004 Public Employment Data
State and Local Governments
MASSACHUSETTS

Population Estimate (July 2004) 6,416,505

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

Total                                       323,067          1.62      1,288,333,097          1.68        503.49
Financial administration                      9,673          4.64         38,214,124          3.84         15.08
Other government administration               5,947          5.39         21,787,790          4.06          9.27
Judicial and Legal                            9,185          0.09         40,798,941          0.08         14.31
Persons with power of arrest                 19,325          1.86        100,214,887          1.85         30.12
Police - Other                                3,827          3.37         11,787,926          4.42          5.96
Firefighters                                 12,415          4.65         55,852,132          2.30         19.35
Fire - Other                                    574          7.71          2,206,500          7.19          0.89
Correction                                    9,367          0.00         40,426,115          0.00         14.60
Highways                                     10,341          3.06         41,179,662          2.36         16.12
Air transportation                            1,307          0.13          7,163,244          0.09          2.04
Water transport and canals                      229          0.00          1,046,835          0.66          0.36
Public Welfare                                9,132          2.38         34,879,114          1.08         14.23
Health                                       10,035          1.02         39,559,500          0.47         15.64
Hospitals                                     6,804          0.00         23,735,789          0.00         10.60
Social insurance administration               1,578          0.00          6,076,755          0.00          2.46
Solid waste management                        1,290          6.60          4,034,254          5.14          2.01
Sewerage                                      2,710          1.68         11,597,170          1.66          4.22
Parks and recreation                          2,764          5.12          8,816,147          5.28          4.31
Housing and community developmen              4,659          3.24         16,888,254          4.48          7.26
Natural resources                             1,494          1.78          6,672,216          1.22          2.33
Water supply                                  3,163          3.61         12,981,326          2.61          4.93
Electric power                                1,085          5.67          5,914,001          3.74          1.69
Gas supply                                       92          0.00            488,216          0.00          0.14
Transit                                       5,843          0.00         34,161,102          0.00          9.11
Elem & Sec Instructional                    117,159          3.64        479,360,183          4.14        182.59
Elem & Sec  - Other                          34,610          2.74         94,349,729          3.22         53.94
Higher Ed Instructional                       9,314          0.00         47,348,520          0.00         14.52
Higher Ed - Other                            16,258          0.00         53,716,538          0.00         25.34
Other education                               1,084          0.00          5,144,633          0.00          1.69
Libraries                                     3,962          5.45         11,379,239          3.66          6.17
State liquor stores                               0          0.00                  0          0.00          0.00
All other and unallocable                     7,841          4.64         30,552,255          3.55         12.22