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TLDR; maybe about one out of three workers

Supposedly about 155 million of us go to work. The federal government checks in at about 2.7 million employees. Local and state employees combined number around 19 million. So we are at about one out of seven people that work for the govt, not including government contractors.

It’s a little more difficult to find numbers on the contractors. For example at the peak of our military involvement in the Middle East it is thought we had around 5.5 million contract workers working for the federal government. That number has dropped to around 3.5 million today, supposedly, implying that we had about 2 million mercenary troops in the Middle East at one point. Numbers on state and federal contract workers are pretty sketchy. Does anyone know where I can find good numbers on this? In my state the department of transportation subs out most of the road work to Contractor’s. The county that I live in contracts out a lot of services. The township that I live in contracts out a lot of services.

If the ratio of state and local contractors to state and local employees is the same as the federal ratios we could be looking at one third of working people in the United States getting cut a paycheck from our govt.