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Show Gov't. Workers Get$l Out Of $6 Employees on governmental payrolls now receive about ?1 of every $6 paid in wages and salaries salar-ies in the United States, according to a press association survey. The survey totaled pay of Federal, Fed-eral, State, and local governmental government-al employees 7,685,000 persons. One of every eight workers was on the public payroll. The U. S. Commerce Department Depart-ment reported governmental payrolls pay-rolls up in November to a record peacetime rate of nearly $22 billion bil-lion per year. |