State government’s job vacancy rate before the coronavirus pandemic was 12.3%, State Budget Director Kristin Walker said. It’s now at 23.4%.

Meyer, who was appointed to the position by Gov. Josh Stein just 75 days ago, said the office is now examining every form it has to simplify what it means to apply for a job in state government ...

As of October 2022, nine months after that January Senate presentation, the vacancy rates only got worse in the majority of Florida’s agencies. “It’s not just one area of government.

In Minnesota, the vacancy rate for state government jobs rose to 11.5 percent in the 2023 fiscal year from 7.5 percent in 2019.