Employment Payroll Data Table
Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees of Texas State and Local Government, 2003
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As 2003 began, 165 thousand civilian employees of the federal government called Texas home. State government employed another 265 thousand Texans while local governments employed nearly 1 million. The largest share of Texas state and local employees--nearly sixty percent of the total--work in education.
Source: Census Bureau. (full source)