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before the pandemic, the city doubled in size every day to 1.6m folks, during working hours which would reduce the ratio by 1/2 The city also includes the airp
by 0xB31B1B 6y ago
before the pandemic, the city doubled in size every day to 1.6m folks, during working hours which would reduce the ratio by 1/2
The city also includes the airport, which alone employs a mix of 30k public and non public workers.
Finally, SF is unique in that is both a city and a county, so all of the sherifs/jail workers/county transit workers are employed by the city itself, which inflates numbers relative to other cities.
I do not know what the true number of residents per public worker is, but my point is that the numbers are a lot more complicated than what you present here.
- nullc 6y ago> SF is unique in that is both a city and a county, That isn't unique to SF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_city-county https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_city-county
- SllX 6y agoIt is in California. Of the 58 counties, San Francisco is the only consolidated City and County and has all the requisite overhead of both under California law.
- redis_mlc 6y agoLarge airports are private/independent in the US, and are funded with massive landing fees (over $10,000 per landing, depending on airplane size.) Often construction bonds are backed by local governments, which almost ruined the economy of San Jose when they built Temrinal 3. The city found a hired gun to manage the costs from $3 billion down to $1.2 billion, but alas, nobody except the occasional JAL flight uses that terminal. Smaller airports available for public use get FAA airport improvement funds, which is why the US has more airports than the rest of the world combined, and why Walmart can use private jets to fly managers from store-to-store, sometimes 3 in a day. https://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/ https://www.faa.gov/airports/aip/