At the end of October 2020, Romania’s public sector counted 1.24 million employees and the number grew to 1.245 million by the end of November.
At the end of October 2019, the last month ahead of presidential elections in November, Romania’s public sector had 1.235 million employees, nearly 14,000 fewer than at the end of 2020.
According to labor ministry records, the 1.249 million public sector employees account for 22% of the total number of 5.62 million employees in Romania.
Of the total number of public sector employees at the end of 2020, 801,813 worked in the central administration, of which 595,722 in institutions fully funded by the state. Half of these, or 289,377 people, were employed in the public education system, and 126,481 people worked in structures of the interior ministry.
The defense ministry had a headcount of 73,805 employees, the finance ministry had 24,677, and the health ministry had 18,216 employees.
Besides employees in the central administration, 447,811 people worked in local administration at the end of 2020.