government employment

State job holding

Government employment refers to jobs in which the employer is a federal, state, or local governmental body rather than a private company or nonprofit organization.

Government employees include teachers, postal workers, police officers, military personnel, and civil servants across countless agencies and departments.

The term often carries connotations of job security, standardized benefits, and bureaucratic hiring processes.

She left the private sector for government employment after college.

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employer sector

government employmentprivate enterprise

Individually owned business operation

Wall Street · big business · family business

employment formality

government employmentself-employment

Working for yourself

freelancing · gig work · entrepreneurship · consulting · contract work

economic participation

government employmentunemployment

Being without paid work

joblessness · retirement · welfare dependency

Family

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