Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is a smaller federal agency: 102 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 11 states (including DC). At an average salary of $186,271 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount grew 2.0% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (102 employees · $186,271 avg).
- HEAD 102
- RANK #69/126
- PAY $186,271
- LOS 18.6 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 11
- NET +3
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Federal Maritime Commission
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Federal Maritime Commission (109 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board ranks #69 of 126 federal agencies by headcount (the same employee_count ordering as our agencies directory and /rankings/largest-agencies). Peer bars use similar workforce size, not duty-station geography. Corpus placement →
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board pay book (rich avg)
Rich-pay strip (102 employees · $186,271 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$186,271
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+58.7%
Where Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $186,271 is higher than 91% of the 121 federal agencies (110 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board ranks higher than 91%.
Salary Range by Sub-agency
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
102
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $186,271.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board | 102 | $186,271 | 18.6 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has employees in 11 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 73 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 73 | $184,644 | 19.6 yrs |
| South Carolina | 6 | $187,748 | 11.7 yrs |
| Tennessee | 4 | $195,850 | 22.7 yrs |
| Virginia | 4 | $192,175 | 18.9 yrs |
| New Mexico | 4 | $184,230 | 14.4 yrs |
| Maryland | 3 | $205,507 | 16.9 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | $205,659 | 17.4 yrs |
| Washington | 2 | $164,823 | 11.4 yrs |
| Texas | 2 | $164,161 | 12.6 yrs |
| West Virginia | 1 | $209,600 | 17.1 yrs |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $209,600 | 18.8 yrs |
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 1 months: +3.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +4 | -1 | +3 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
+3
+4 / −1
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.03%
Moved with the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
4
Separation Reasons
QUIT
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
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Selective Service System
Office of Special Counsel
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board on OPM FedScope averages that vary across the full agency corpus, not duty-station geography or sub-agency hierarchy.
Peers near this rich pay band
Nearest agency-wide average salaries ($186,271 here).
Similar average tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (18.6 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's average salary is ranked against every other federal agency's average salary, agency-by-agency (not weighted by headcount), and the percentile is the share of agencies whose average is strictly lower.
The sub-agency pay-span bars sum each sub-agency's own employee_count into one of five salary bands based on that sub-agency's average salary; the bands add up exactly to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's total employee count, since every sub-agency is counted in exactly one band.
See the methodology page for the full source-to-page pipeline and refresh cadence.
Data Source: U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) FedScope Employment Cubes, June 2026. Federal civilian non-seasonal full-time and part-time employees. Data does not include military personnel, postal workers, or intelligence agency staff. Last updated: 2026-08-11.
Data currency: Employment stock from OPM Federal Workforce Data June 2026 (prior-period deltas vs May 2026); monthly hiring/separations from FWD Dynamics June 2024–June 2026 (filled civilian headcount and flows, not live USAJOBS vacancy listings). State pages sum only duty stations with a disclosed US state/DC code; 898,675 employees have redacted geography in the release and appear in the national total only. Database compiled 2026-08-11. See our methodology § populations for the three windows. Spot a figure that looks wrong? Report a correction.