government employees
State workforce members
Government employees are people who work for a government at any level—federal, state, or local.
The term covers everyone from postal workers and teachers to bureaucrats and elected officials.
Government employees get federal holidays off.
In political rhetoric, "government employee" sometimes carries connotations of inefficiency or job security unavailable in the private sector.
- auditorFinancial records examiner
- tax collectorOne who collects levies
- park rangerPublic lands officer
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- chief of staffHighest-ranking administrative assistant
urban planner · city manager · bureaucrats · forensic scientist · secretary · apparatchiks · desk job · teacher · pension plan · medical examiner · police officer · sanitation worker · firefighter · commissioner · social worker · geologist · functionaries · receptionist
- workersworkers, employee, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- drug testingdrug testing, drug test, drug screen, drug screens, drug screening
government employeesself-employed
Working independently, not hired
freelancers · independent contractors · sole proprietors · gig workers · entrepreneurs
government employeesbusiness owners
Those who own companies
employers · capitalists · entrepreneurs · industrialists · executives