public employee
State-paid staff member
A public employee is someone who works for a government entity—federal, state, or local—rather than a private company.
Teachers at public schools, firefighters, police officers, and postal workers are all public employees.
The term often arises in discussions of pensions, unions, and civil service protections: Public employees rallied against proposed benefit cuts.
- civil servantGovernment administration employee
- government workerPublic sector employee
- firefighterEmergency blaze responder
- university professorHigher education instructor
- inspectorOfficial quality checker
ombudsman · bureaucrat · city hall · sanitation worker · paramedic · police officer · archivist · librarian · customs officer · park ranger · city manager · tax auditor · museum curator · postal worker · health inspector · social worker · compliance officer · city clerk
- government hiringcivil servant, government job, federal jobs, job posting, vacancy
- labor unionsunion dues, trade union, union membership, labor union, union shops
public employeeindependent contractor
Self-employed person hired temporarily
freelancer · sole proprietor · business owner · entrepreneur · gig worker
public, publicly, publics, publication, publications, publish, publishes, published, publishing