state employee

Public sector staffer

A state employee is someone who works for a state government rather than for federal, local, or private employers.

The term covers a wide range of positions—teachers, highway workers, prison guards, clerks, administrators: State employees get their paychecks from the state treasury.

As a state employee, she qualified for the public pension system.

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