How many employees/employers are non-participants in Social Security? Are government employers required to participate?
Over 96% of workers are covered under Social Security. The majority of those not covered are state and local government employees with their own retirement systems. About 30% of state and local government workers are not presently covered. Federal employees hired after 1983; and beginning in 1983, the President, the Vice President, the Congress, political appointees, and judges; and federal employees hired before 1984 who were not covered under a federal retirement program are covered under Social Security.
