Cities and States With the Most Federal Workers Affected by the Shutdown

In all, about 420,000 federal employees deemed essential are working without pay, while another 380,000 are furloughed.

The partial government shutdown has matched the longest on record and hundreds of thousands of federal workers have started to miss paychecks. A look at where federal workers are based, and how their salaries measure up to average salaries in those regions, helps draw a picture of the potential impact on local economies.

Under the shutdown, funding has lapsed for nine of the 15 federal departments—Justice, State, Treasury, Homeland Security, Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation—as well as several agencies. About 420,000 federal employees deemed essential are working without pay, while another 380,000 have been placed on unpaid leave, or furlough. In all, the federal government employs about two million civilian workers.

Washington, D.C., accounts for 18% of all economic activity produced by the federal civilian government sector, the largest of any metropolitan area … four out of five full-time federal employees live outside the metropolitan area comprised of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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