--- title: Private Sector - Wyoming Liberty Group - Wyoming Liberty Group description: Wyoming Liberty Group, a 501c3, founded in 2008 with the purpose of inviting citizens to prepare for informed, active and confident involvement in local and sta canonical_url: https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/private-sector language: en-GB notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/private-sector. markdown-tokens: 295 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://wyliberty.org/blog-tags/private-sector. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ![](https://wyliberty.org/images/easyblog_articles/1126/b2ap3_large_Difference_Between_Ave_2017_Gov_Wages.jpg) by Philip Baron In 2017 Wyoming had 292 state and local government employees per 1,000 people working in the private sector (according to employment data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics). The state government made up 5.4%1 of the employment in the state in 2017. Local government made up 16.7% of the state's employment for the same year. Wha...