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by rossmmurray 1783 days ago
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is definitely up there.

There are 1.6m people working for NHS and about 41m people of working age in the UK. So that's about 1 in 26 (or 3.9%).

Sources: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-..., https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LFWA64TTGBQ647S

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They're a public employer though, no?
In essence, they're employed by the queen