Friday, January 31, 2025

How low should it go?

Percent of total employment: Private Sector vs Federal Government:

Graph #1: Federal (red) and Private Sector (blue) Employment as Percent of Total Employment


A detail view:

Graph #2: Here I leave out the big, blank middle of the graph.

And the silly version.

 

Recent readings show private sector employment at about 85 percent of total employment, and federal at less than 2 percent. (The numbers don't add up to 100 percent.) The FRED page provides a link to Table B-1 which lists additional sectors, with links to the data.

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