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New York-A comprehensive ] survey of public employment in the United States reveals that the number of people in Rappahannock County who are on local government payrolls is ■ relatively small.
There are fewer people so-employed locally, in proportion to population, than in most parts of the country.
Taken into account in the compilation are all persons who are on the payrolls of county governments, of townships, municipalities, school districts and special districts. Federal and state employees are not included.
The facts and figures relating to public employment and public payrolls, gathered every five years by the Department of Commerce in connection with its “Census of 1 Governments,” have just been released.
They show a total of 140 1 persons in public employ in > Rappahannock County during the i period the count was taken.
Of these, 114 were employed , full-time. The others, on a i part-time basis, were converted i into their full-time equivalent so ' that comparison might be made ; with other communities. 1 The net finding is that, in terms of population, there is one ' full-time worker, or the ; equivalent, for every 47 local i residents.
This is a smaller number of employees, relatively, than are on the payrolls of most communities in the United States, the average being one for every 36 residents.
It is smaller, also, than the State of Virginia ratio of one employee per 42 people.
In almost every section of the country, governments are ' expanding, in terms of personnel. 1 Total public employment, in the ’ five years since the prior survey, 1 increased by nearly two million, r or 23 percent. More than half of - it was accounted for by local 1 governments. * Payrolls went up at an even taster pace during the five years, 1 rising 53 percent, according to 1 the report. t As for the picture in the local r area, the public payroll in Rappahannock County reached a 1 total of $42,000 per month, * equal to $7.64 in cost for each » local resident.
Elsewhere in the Southern i- States it took an average of * $12.39 per capita to meet * monthly payroll costs and, in the State of Virginia, $11.66.
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