No, the public employee I know did NOT pay SS. He was a city worker.
That’s illegal. No one is exempt I thought. I’ll check with my wife, she runs a payroll processing service. She knows all the tax laws.
Back in the late 70s early 80s my wife was a teacher in Ohio and wasn’t in the SocSec system.
She gets a reduced SocSec payment now in retirement to reflect that.