Per US Department of Labor - Bureau of labor statistics
see : http://www.bls.gov
as of Oct 2007 : Raw data, not seasonally adjusted.
Out of total US population of 232,715,000
of which 153,516,000 are in labor force (= working & looking for work)
of which 146,743,000 are actually working.
My guess is that these numbers do not include illegal alien workers, or
workers that work as independent contractors.
According to the US BoLS site, in 2008, 120,589,850 are employed out of an estimated 330,000,000 citizens. Statistics for 2009 are not yet complete. However, unemployment increased from 4.2%, in '07' to 9.8% as of sept, 2009.
The number of unemployed increased by 787,000 in May to 14.5 million unemployed people or 9.4 percent of the workers. These are the Government's figures would mean that there are about 155,000,000 people that work for a living and according to Wikipedia in June 2009 there were 306,000,000 people living in the United States. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
120,589,850 million people in the US are employed. The current unemployment rate in the United States is 6.3 percent.
i bleave it to be over a billon people
how many people are employed as plumbers in canada
The Executive Branch of the US government employees most of the people who work for the government. In 2014, there were about 4 million people employed by the Executive Branch including the military who work for the Defense Department.
All of them are employed, as they do earn a taxable paycheck.
There are around 694,900 people employed as a electrician in the United States. This is a dangerous and highly specialized job.
In 2009 (the last available figures) Apple employed 34,300 people.
The amount of people in the state of Maine that are employed is not an available stat. Instead, the percentage of those employed in the state is 94.5 percent.
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