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Ratio of State Full-Time Employee Equivalents to State Residents, 2006

See also other state and state-local rankings, especially state expenditures per capita and per income.

State

Total State Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)Employees

 Ratio of FTEs to State Residents

 

United States

4,250,554

70:1

Rank

Alabama

85,223

54:1

18

Alaska

25,151

27:1

2

Arizona

66,858

92:1

46

Arkansas

58,147

48:1

8

California

393,609

93:1

47

Colorado

67,451

71:1

36

Connecticut

61,971

57:1

24

Delaware

25,614

33:1

3

Florida

191,215

95:1

48

Georgia

124,361

75:1

40

Hawaii*

54,958

23:1

1

Idaho

22,259

66:1

32

Illinois

131,859

97:1

50

Indiana

89,799

70:1

35

Iowa

53,258

56:1

21

Kansas

44,393

62:1

27

Kentucky

79,266

53:1

15

Louisiana

83,358

51:1

12

Maine

21,680

61:1

25

Maryland

90,262

62:1

26

Massachusetts

90,989

71:1

37

Michigan

134,918

75:1

39

Minnesota

76,795

67:1

33

Mississippi

55,036

53:1

14

Missouri

90,228

65:1

31

Montana

18,933

50:1

10

Nebraska

32,904

54:1

17

Nevada

25,859

97:1

49

New Hampshire

19,076

69:1

34

New Jersey

156,768

56:1

20

New Mexico

50,783

39:1

5

New York

249,208

78:1

42

North Carolina

139,117

64:1

29

North Dakota

18,127

35:1

4

Ohio

136,840

84:1

45

Oklahoma

67,424

53:1

16

Oregon

57,485

64:1

30

Pennsylvania

161,136

77:1

41

Rhode Island

20,594

52:1

13

South Carolina

76,468

57:1

23

South Dakota

13,905

56:1

22

Tennessee

83,117

73:1

38

Texas

281,722

83:1

44

Utah

50,277

51:1

11

Vermont

14,615

43:1

7

Virginia

122,634

62:1

28

Washington

116,943

55:1

19

West Virginia

37,004

49:1

9

Wisconsin

68,143

82:1

43

 Wyoming

12,814 

 40:1

Notes:
Hawaii has no local school districts, so its ratio is disproportionately high.
Population figures are July 2006 estimates.

Sources: http://ftp2.census.gov/govs/apes/06stall.xls and http://www.census.gov/popest/states/tables/NST-EST2006-01.xls

Posted September 2007.
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