California’s state and local governments are among the leanest in the nation when it comes to the number of employees on their payrolls as a proportion of the state’s population, according to the latest numbers crunched by economist Steve Levy.

Levy, director of the Center for the Continuing Study of the California Economy, reports that California ranks fifth from the bottom nationwide in the number of employees working for the government relative to the population.

In 2010, California had 110 full-time equivalent state government employees per 10,000 residents, compared to the national average of 142. For state and local government employees combined, California had 479 per 10,000 resident,s compared to 537 for the U.S. average, Levy reports.

In the schools, California had 175 local education employees per 10,000 residents, compared to the national average of 220.

Since 2007 the number of state and local government employees per 10,000 residents has declined from 501 to 479 while K-12 employees fell from 190 to 175, according to Levy.

See his full report here.

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