Department of the Navy
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Department of the Navy, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Department of the Navy
Department of the Navy is one of the largest federal employers: 201,061 employees (10.3% of the federal civilian workforce) across 0 states (including DC). At an average salary of n/a it pays below the federal average of $117,339, and headcount grew 0.3% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Department of the Navy - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (201,061 employees · n/a avg).
- HEAD 201,061
- RANK #3/126
- PAY n/a
- LOS 13.4 yrs
- SHARE 10.3%
- STATES n/a
- NET +299
- SUBS 20
- PHOTO Department of the Army
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Department of the Army (187,785 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Department of the Navy ranks #3 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 →
Department of the Navy pay book (lean avg)
Lean-pay strip (201,061 employees · n/a avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
n/a
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
-100.0%
Where Department of the Navy ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of n/a is higher than 0% of the 121 federal agencies (0 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Department of the Navy, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Department of the Navy sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Department of the Navy ranks higher than 0%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
201,061
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
0
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Department of the Navy has 20 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages n/a.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naval Sea Systems Command | 33,567 | n/a | 13.6 yrs |
| United States Fleet Forces Command | 33,354 | n/a | 12.1 yrs |
| Naval Air Systems Command | 26,730 | n/a | 14 yrs |
| U.S. Pacific Fleet, Commander in Chief | 25,393 | n/a | 12.5 yrs |
| U.S. Marine Corps | 16,170 | n/a | 14.1 yrs |
| Naval Facilities Engineering Command | 13,619 | n/a | 13.8 yrs |
| Commander, Navy Installations Command | 12,453 | n/a | 13.6 yrs |
| Commander, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (navwarsyscom) | 9,529 | n/a | 14.7 yrs |
| Naval Supply Systems Command | 6,053 | n/a | 13.1 yrs |
| Directorate for Administrations, Logistics, and Operations (dalo) | 4,760 | n/a | 14.6 yrs |
| Bureau of Naval Personnel | 3,763 | n/a | 13.4 yrs |
| Naval Education and Training Command | 3,663 | n/a | 11 yrs |
| Office of Naval Research | 2,582 | n/a | 16.7 yrs |
| Immediate Office of the Chief of Naval Operations | 1,917 | n/a | 14.5 yrs |
| Naval Medical Command | 1,775 | n/a | 14.5 yrs |
| Strategic Systems Programs (ssp) | 1,677 | n/a | 14.6 yrs |
| Naval Intelligence Activity | 1,408 | n/a | 16.6 yrs |
| Navy Systems Management Activity | 1,183 | n/a | 14.2 yrs |
| Naval Special Warfare Command | 1,078 | n/a | 14.4 yrs |
| Navy Reserve Force | 387 | n/a | 14.6 yrs |
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 12 months: +299.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +1,375 | -425 | +950 |
| May 2026 | +41 | -573 | -532 |
| Apr 2026 | +1 | -68 | -67 |
| Mar 2026 | +0 | -23 | -23 |
| Feb 2026 | +1 | -7 | -6 |
| Jan 2026 | +0 | -5 | -5 |
| Dec 2025 | +0 | -8 | -8 |
| Nov 2025 | +0 | -3 | -3 |
| Oct 2025 | +0 | -1 | -1 |
| Sep 2025 | +0 | -3 | -3 |
| Aug 2025 | +0 | -1 | -1 |
| Jul 2025 | +0 | -2 | -2 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Department of the Navy against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
+950
+1,375 / −425
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
8.60%
Moved with the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Department of the Navy
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
1,149
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
248
TRANSFER IN - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
21
NEW HIRE - SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE (SES) APPT
3
Separation Reasons
QUIT
455
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
425
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
122
OTHER SEPARATION
86
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
25
Sub-agencies by average tenure
Agency-wide average length of service is 13.4 years. Counts below are employees in sub-agencies whose average tenure falls in each band, not how many individuals have that length of service.
Sub-agency avg under 5 yrs
0
Sub-agency avg 5–10 yrs
0
Sub-agency avg 10–15 yrs
197,071
Sub-agency avg 15–20 yrs
3,990
Sub-agency avg over 20 yrs
0
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Department of the Navy
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Department of the Army
Department of Homeland Security
Department of the Air Force
Department of Justice
Department of Treasury
Department of Agriculture
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Department of the Navy on OPM FedScope averages that vary across the full agency corpus, not duty-station geography or sub-agency hierarchy.
Peers near this lean pay band
Nearest agency-wide average salaries (n/a here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (13.4 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Department of the Navy'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 Department of the Navy'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.