claim: "florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents... and florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident."
author: alex sink
evidence_1: jan 16, 2015 ... and florida remains dead last in both its per-capita size and cost of state  personnel. ... measuring monthly employment figures, scott has kept a large ...  the dms report said florida had the nation's lowest ratio of state employees to ...  the report also ranked florida lowest in state government payroll costs.
evidence_2: "florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents... and florida is dead last  in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident." — politifact ...
evidence_3: florida has a population of 20.6m people with a median age of 42.1 and a  median ... number of employees ... the average car ownership in florida is 2  cars per household. ... in 2016 the highest paid race/ethnicity of florida workers  was asian. .... the highest paid jobs held by residents of florida, by average  salary, are ...
evidence_4: may 22, 2013 ... "this budget also reflects the smallest state government workforce per 1000 ... to  other states, florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents: 118 per ...  and florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll ...
evidence_5: this article, which is updated on an annual basis, was last updated in june 2017.  ... the florida state budget and financial data presented here come from .... just  17 percent of the state's general revenues, the lowest percentage in the nation.  .... this ranked florida ninth among the states in debt and 45th in per capita debt.