Because Austin is the state capital, a high proportion (about 8 percent) of the region’s 880,000 workers are state employees, which makes the State of Texas one of the single largest employers in the Austin metropolitan statistical area. Focusing on the central Austin region (the area bounded by MoPac on the west, I-35 on the east, Oltorf Street on the south, and US 183 on the north), 19 percent of the 226,000 total workers in that region are state workers. The purpose of this research was to determine the extent to which this large concentration of state workers influences Austin-area congestion.