Public Sector Jobs Are Real Jobs Marshall Auerback In 1976 at a time when economists thought more about unemployment, the US economist Charles C. Killingsworth wrote a paper entitled “ Should ...

It may seem counterintuitive to want to work in the public sector, which typically has lower salaries than the private sector. (For example, the CIA has an open listing for an AI specialist, a ...

The public sector, especially state and local governments, has added 379,000 jobs in the first half of 2023, comprising almost one-quarter of the nation’s nearly 1.7 million payroll gains.

The loss of public-sector jobs was backed up by data released recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics which showed a loss of 280,000 public-sector jobs from December 2010 to December 2011, with ...

Despite high rates of public sector employment, black women working in the public sector make less than others, with a median wage of $15.50 an hour compared to the sector's overall median of $18. ...

Compared to similar private sector workers, we estimate that federal workers receive a salary premium of 14 percent, a benefits premium of 63 percent, and extra job security worth 17 percent of pay.

The job-opening rate for public-sector positions is below that of private businesses, but hasn’t come down as much from the highs of 2022. Private-Sector Employment Bounced Back. State and Local ...

Delaware, for example, “is committed to reinforcing the pipeline to jobs with the state from historically black colleges like Delaware State University,” says Claire DeMatteis, secretary of ...