# US states by government payroll employment, August 2026

All 51 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-08, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `payroll_employment_government`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Number of jobs on government payrolls in the month, seasonally adjusted, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The supersector covers federal, state and local government, including public schools, public hospitals and the Postal Service; active-duty military personnel are excluded.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, government, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000009000000001) (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.76.Government.Current)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics, State and Area: all employees, government, statewide, seasonally adjusted (SMS, state, 000009000000001). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/sm/sm.data.76.Government.Current. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/government-jobs/us-states

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 2,673,200 |
| 2 | Texas | 2,134,700 |
| 3 | New York | 1,532,100 |
| 4 | Florida | 1,143,900 |
| 5 | Illinois | 858,100 |
| 6 | Ohio | 786,900 |
| 7 | North Carolina | 780,700 |
| 8 | Virginia | 755,600 |
| 9 | Georgia | 710,000 |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | 700,600 |
| 11 | Michigan | 643,500 |
| 12 | New Jersey | 622,100 |
| 13 | Washington | 606,400 |
| 14 | Maryland | 527,200 |
| 15 | Colorado | 483,800 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 475,100 |
| 17 | Tennessee | 458,700 |
| 18 | Minnesota | 438,800 |
| 19 | Missouri | 432,600 |
| 20 | Alabama | 431,800 |
| 21 | Arizona | 424,400 |
| 22 | Indiana | 422,700 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 418,500 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 403,800 |
| 25 | Oklahoma | 373,100 |
| 26 | Louisiana | 325,900 |
| 27 | Kentucky | 315,400 |
| 28 | Oregon | 311,300 |
| 29 | Utah | 277,300 |
| 30 | Iowa | 267,800 |
| 31 | Kansas | 257,200 |
| 32 | Mississippi | 236,300 |
| 33 | Connecticut | 234,800 |
| 34 | District of Columbia | 208,100 |
| 35 | Arkansas | 204,900 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 195,300 |
| 37 | Nevada | 185,000 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 177,700 |
| 39 | West Virginia | 148,100 |
| 40 | Idaho | 128,700 |
| 41 | Hawaii | 126,100 |
| 42 | Maine | 102,500 |
| 43 | Montana | 91,200 |
| 44 | New Hampshire | 87,500 |
| 45 | North Dakota | 86,100 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 80,600 |
| 47 | Alaska | 77,900 |
| 48 | Delaware | 71,700 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 71,400 |
| 50 | Rhode Island | 64,500 |
| 51 | Vermont | 56,300 |