2003 Public Employment Data
State and Local Governments
COLORADO

Population Estimate (July, 2003) 4,550,688

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

Total                                       256,018          0.38        887,996,182          0.14        568.80
Financial administration                      6,367          1.29         25,592,322          0.56         14.15
Other government administration               5,322          6.68         19,333,639          2.69         11.82
Judicial and Legal                            5,877          0.00         25,282,064          0.09         13.06
Police with power of arrest                   9,652          0.72         47,170,566          0.20         21.44
Police - other                                3,642          1.23         12,873,845          0.54          8.09
Firefighters                                  4,524          1.57         20,703,727          0.80         10.05
Fire - other                                    477          3.56          1,744,978          4.39          1.06
Correction                                   10,034          0.05         37,356,712          0.29         22.29
Highways                                      9,097          1.21         32,955,940          1.57         20.21
Air transportation                            1,386          0.00          5,649,819          0.00          3.08
Water transport and canals                        0          0.00                  0          0.00          0.00
Public Welfare                                8,121          0.35         27,023,575          0.24         18.04
Health                                        4,937          1.43         20,066,937          0.66         10.97
Hospitals                                    12,618          0.00         43,691,835          0.00         28.03
Social insurance administration                 946          0.00          3,980,455          0.00          2.10
Solid waste management                          751          6.86          2,202,817          2.63          1.67
Sewerage                                      2,528          6.00          9,901,967          6.22          5.62
Parks and recreation                          6,683          0.60         18,516,123          0.88         14.85
Housing and community developmen              1,937          0.80          7,327,995          0.42          4.30
Natural resources                             2,101          3.29          8,853,203          1.89          4.67
Water supply                                  3,748          2.94         15,901,771          1.95          8.33
Electric power                                1,503          0.00          8,109,482          0.00          3.34
Gas supply                                      314          0.00          1,408,947          0.00          0.70
Transit                                       3,244          0.00         11,389,793          0.00          7.21
Elem & Sec Instructional                     68,628          0.84        220,474,792          0.22        152.47
Elem & Sec - Other                           31,984          1.51         72,464,021          1.13         71.06
Higher Ed Instructional                      15,060          0.00         74,180,586          0.00         33.46
Higher Ed - Other                            24,602          0.00         79,828,678          0.00         54.66
Other education                               1,309          0.00          5,092,547          0.00          2.91
Libraries                                     2,870          2.59          7,445,826          2.13          6.38
State liquor stores                               0          0.00                  0          0.00          0.00
All other and unallocable                     5,756          0.90         21,471,220          0.92         12.79