The Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll and the Census of Governments, Survey of Public Employment & Payroll measure the number of state and local civilian government employees and their gross monthly payroll for March of the survey year.

Here you will find the most recent questionnaire and whether an archive of past questionnaires is available online.

Sources are the Census Bureau and other federal agencies, if applicable.

Data User Notice posted on May 1, 2025.

Data collection for the 2025 Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll began March 27, 2025.

2024 Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll preliminary data were released March 2025.

View and download the 2024 ASPEP datasets.

View and download the 2023 ASPEP datasets.

View and download the 2021 ASPEP datasets.

View and download the 2024 ASPEP Tables.

View and download the 2023 ASPEP Tables.

View and download the 2022 Census of Governments, Public Employment & Payroll Tables.

In March 2024, state and local governments employed 19.9 million people, an increase of 2.5 percent from the 2023 figure of 19.4 million.

View the states with the most public sector employees per 10,000 people for 2024.

In March 2023, state and local governments employed 19.6 million people, an increase of 1.9 percent from the 2022 Census of Governments figure of 19.2 million.