美国政府雇员24 millions: federal government 4 millions, state/local governments 20 millions.
--Public-sector workers had a union membership rate (35.7 percent), more
than five times higher than that of private-sector workers (6.6 percent).
(See table 3.)
--Workers in education, training, and library occupations and in protective
service occupations had the highest unionization rate, at 35.3 percent for
each occupation group. (See table 3.)
--Median weekly earnings of nonunion workers ($763) were 79 percent of
earnings for workers who were union members ($970). (The comparisons of
earnings in this release are on a broad level and do not control for many
factors that can be important in explaining earnings differences.)
(See table 2.)