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Employees of the state and of school districts make up nearly two-thirds of all <br />public employment in Minnesota. As illustrated below, city employees comprise only <br />16 percent of all Minnesota public employees. <br />CHART 10* <br />MINNESOTA'S STATE AND LOCAL GOVERMENT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES <br />BY GOVERNMENTAL UNIT, 1985 <br />SPEC. DISTS. ( <br />TOWNSHIPS (4.11 <br />(,ITIFS (15.95E) <br />COUNTIES (I <br />• BEE TABLE 10 IN APPENDIX FOR DATA. <br />DISTS (33.122) <br />(2°.0SI) <br />,ORCE: U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS, "PUBLIC TWIOYP' "45." <br />Costs of Pay Equity/Comparable Worth Mandate. The Leapue's 1986-87 City <br />Budget Survey revealed that a large number of Minnesota's larger cities have ex- <br />perienced sizable increases in their payroll costs as a res- it of implementation of the <br />slate's comparable worth law. On average cities respondH,d to the Survey estimated <br />their payroll costs would rise by 4.5 percent whicn is equivalent to approximately $30 <br />to S35 million in increased Costs statewide per year for Mu)nesota cities. Payroll costs <br />generally comprise over 60 percent of the average city budget <br />16 <br />