Macroeconomics 20th Edition by Campbell McConnell,Stanley Brue,Sean Flynn

Exercise 17

Suppose that there are 1 million federal workers at the
a. How many supervisors will there be in each supervisory layer of the federal bureaucracy? Start with the layer of supervisors directly above the 1 million workers at the bottom.
b. How many supervisors are there in total at all levels of the federal bureaucratic pyramid, including the president?
c. If you count the 1 million workers at the bottom as the first layer of the federal bureaucracy, how many total layers are there, including the president?
d. How many federal employees are there in total at all layers, including the president?
e. What fraction of all federal employees are supervisory, including the president?