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May 24, 2010 By Chris P. Janelli One of my fellow SRTC members mentioned to me the other day that CT and MA both had about the same number of government employees, but MA has more than 2.5X the number of people. I thought I would dig a bit on this and found the following interesting information. I also found the 2007 national state ranking on teacher's salaries interesting; particularly in light of the tens of billions in unfunded state liabilities for CT's teachers. I leave it to you to draw your own conclusions. State / Total Employees/ Employees Per 10,000 Population / Increase from 2003-2008 Vermont / 19,000 / 306 / 9.8% Maine / 29,100 / 221 / 8.2% Connecticut / 71,900 / 205 / 3.5% New Hampshire / 26,400 / 201 / 8.2% Massachusetts / 120,500 / 187 / 5.0% Rhode Island / 17,000 / 161 / 5.6%) New York / 268,000 / 139 / 0.1) http://sourcebook.governing.com Data Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics State & Local Sourcebook is Governing's authoritative compendium of data on the states and the largest U.S. municipalities - and for the first time it's only available online. PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' AVERAGE SALARIES, 2007 State Rankings -- Statistical Abstract of the United States See Table 247, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2010 Source: National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics STATE / Dollars / Rank California / $63,640 / 1 Connecticut / $60,822 / 2 South Dakota / $35,378 / 50 (Just for interest) Source: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/rankings.html
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