Healthcare and behavioral health professionals employed by local, state, and federal governments are essential to maintaining public health infrastructure, ensuring access to care, and responding to emergencies. Despite their importance, limited research has examined how recent policy, budgetary, and labor market changes are influencing their employment stability and retention within government sectors.

This article uses longitudinal data from the Current Population Survey (2015-2025) to examine employment transitions among government-employed healthcare and behavioral health workers and to estimate the predicted probabilities of (1) transitions from government to non-governmental employment and (2) full exits from the labor force.