The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the 2025 Survey of Public Employment & Payroll as authorized by Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.), Sections 161 and 182 to provide state and local government data on full-time and part-time employment, full-time equivalent employment, and payroll statistics by governmental function for the pay periods that include March 12, 2025. These governmental functions include financial administration, other government administration, judicial and legal, police protection (persons with power of arrest and other police protection), fire protection (firefighters and other fire protection), corrections, highways, air transportation, sea and inland port facilities, public welfare, health, hospitals, social insurance administration, solid waste management, sewerage, parks and recreation, housing and community development, natural resources, water supply, electric power, gas supply, transit, elementary and secondary education (instructional and other elementary and secondary education), higher education (instructional and other higher education), other education, libraries, and state liquor stores. Beginning with the release of the 2019 Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll, part-time hours are no longer included in the content that is collected and published.

To report online, follow the instructions found on our Information for Respondents page. Information is needed by May 8, 2025.

By Phone: 1-800-832-2839

Hours of Operation

Monday - Friday

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., ET

Title 13 United States Code, Sections 161 and 182, authorizes the Census Bureau to conduct this collection and request your voluntary assistance.

These data are subject to provisions of Title 13 United States Code, Section 9(b), exempting data that are customarily provided in public records from rules of confidentiality. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your data.

Below are a few common items you can use to verify the legitimacy of this survey:

1. Ensure the Web address provided in the letter is a "census.gov" domain.
2. Correspondence sent in the form of a letter or email will contain reporting instructions and a phone number for survey assistance. Any email correspondence related to this survey will come from a census.gov address.
3. On the sign-in screen, a warning message should be present stating the respondent is accessing a U.S. Government computer.
4. After clicking on the “Report Now” button in the Respondent Portal, the OMB Number and OMB Approval Expiration information will appear in the upper right of the first screen of the electronic reporting instrument. The bottom of the screen should have a link for the “Burden Statement” which also contains the OMB eight-digit number.

For more information on verifying a Census Bureau survey, please visit https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/surveyhelp/verify-a-survey.html.