Local Government and County Employers KT promotes the interests of Finnish municipalities, joint municipal authorities and wellbeing services counties on the labour market. Finland has 308 municipalities, more than 100 joint municipal authorities and 21 wellbeing services counties, which employ together about 448 000 people.

Local government and county employers are for instance

• hospitals, health centres
• comprehensive and upper secondary schools, vocational institution
• day care and youth affairs centres, homes for elderly
• libraries, museums
• local traffic as well as fire and rescue departments.

The local government services sector and wellbeing services counties employ about 448 000 people and comprise thousands of different occupational titles. In October 2025, the average monthly salary of full-time monthly salaried employees was 3 869 euros in the local government sector and 4 297 euros in the wellbeing services sector.