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REPORT: 2007 RECESSION, COVID-19 LED TO DROP IN LOCAL GOV­ERNMENT WORKERS IN
PAST 15 YEARS

By Luke Parsnow New York State
PUBLISHED 4:07 PM ET Dec. 14, 2023 PUBLISHED 4:07 PM EST Dec. 14, 2023
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The number of full-time local government employees located outside of New York
City has shrank nearly 8% over the last 15 years, according to a report Thursday
from New York state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

The report found the number of workers in local government fell 7.9%, or nearly
39,000, between 2007 and 2022, from 491,102 to 452,298.

In contrast, the nation as a whole saw an increase of 2% of local government
employees over the same time period, the comptroller said. 

The most impactful events affecting the local government workforce during this
time were the Great Recession and COVID-19 pandemic. While billions of dollars
in federal pandemic relief aid to local governments and school districts likely
helped employment numbers recover some in 2022, they remain below 2009 levels,
the report said.

"We all rely on local government employees for essential services such as
education, public safety, health care, and much more,” DiNapoli said. “But local
governments were hard hit by two major events, most recently the pandemic, that
have taken their toll on staffing levels. Local officials must continue to meet
the difficult task of balancing their budgets while making certain they have the
staff in place to ensure critical services are there for their residents.”

The report also found that:

 * More local employees worked upstate (55%) as opposed to downstate in 2022
 * School districts were the largest local government employer in 2022, followed
   by county workers, city and village workers and town workers
 * The average annual salary for full-time local government employees was
   approximately $76,700 in 2022, up from about $53,900 in 2007, but inflation
   means the annual salary was nearly flat over that time
 * Workers employed in police protection were the highest paid local government
   employees in 2022, followed by fire protection employees
 * Public welfare employees had the lowest average annual salary


LUKE PARSNOW - NEW YORK STATE POLITICS DIGITAL CONTENT PRODUCER

Luke Parsnow is the New York state politics digital content writer and producer
at Spectrum News 1. He is an award-winning writer and political columnist and
previously worked for CNYCentral in Syracuse and The Post-Star in Glens Falls,
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