As of 2025, federal employees constituted about 5.5% of Maryland's workforce, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.
November 11, 2025
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Share of state workforce employed by the federal government.
The Bipartisan Policy Center has estimated that at least 670,000 federal workers can be furloughed and roughly 730,000 federal workers can be required to work without pay during a U.S. federal government shutdown.
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Estimates of federal workforce status (furloughs and unpaid work) during U.S. federal government shutdowns.