The city administration in Munich has about 33000 employees.
Since parts of the city administration were privatised in the 90s (municipal utilities with 8000 employees, public transport with 3000 employees, hospital with 9000 employees) the number was higher in the past.
The police is employed by the state (Bavaria), not the city, so they don’t figure into this number, either.
I looked over the list of job advertisements and the offered jobs are quite diverse. Lots of clerks, obviously, but also engineers, mechanics, plumbers, all kinds of IT jobs, lawyers, one painting restorer, all kinds of child care workers and teachers, headmasters, medical doctors, editors, cooks …
Teachers are a pretty big group (and the only one I could easily find numbers for): 4500 teachers for 72000 students in the city.
You do need quite a lot of people to run a city. Of course, this always also depends on what exactly the city does, what is privatised and what is done by other levels of government.
Obviously not all of those need their own personal computer for their work (some don’t need a computer at all), but many do.
Altogether about seven percent (that’s about one in 14) of Americans work for the government (I think it’s about six percent in Germany, so a very similar number), so the number for Munich’s local government shouldn’t really surprise you.
The city administration in Munich has about 33000 employees.
Since parts of the city administration were privatised in the 90s (municipal utilities with 8000 employees, public transport with 3000 employees, hospital with 9000 employees) the number was higher in the past.
The police is employed by the state (Bavaria), not the city, so they don’t figure into this number, either.
I looked over the list of job advertisements and the offered jobs are quite diverse. Lots of clerks, obviously, but also engineers, mechanics, plumbers, all kinds of IT jobs, lawyers, one painting restorer, all kinds of child care workers and teachers, headmasters, medical doctors, editors, cooks …
Teachers are a pretty big group (and the only one I could easily find numbers for): 4500 teachers for 72000 students in the city.
You do need quite a lot of people to run a city. Of course, this always also depends on what exactly the city does, what is privatised and what is done by other levels of government.
Obviously not all of those need their own personal computer for their work (some don’t need a computer at all), but many do.
Altogether about seven percent (that’s about one in 14) of Americans work for the government (I think it’s about six percent in Germany, so a very similar number), so the number for Munich’s local government shouldn’t really surprise you.