Environmental Protection Agency
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Environmental Protection Agency, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection Agency is a mid-sized federal agency: 12,513 employees (0.6% of the federal civilian workforce) across 49 states (including DC). At an average salary of $139,471 it pays above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 0.4% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Environmental Protection Agency - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (12,513 employees · $139,471 avg).
- HEAD 12,513
- RANK #17/126
- PAY $139,471
- LOS 15.1 yrs
- SHARE 0.6%
- STATES 49
- NET -38
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Department of Energy
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Department of Energy (13,339 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Environmental Protection Agency ranks #17 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 →
Salary Analysis · Environmental Protection Agency
How Environmental Protection Agency pay compares to the federal average of $117,339.
Agency Average
$139,471
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+18.9%
Where Environmental Protection Agency ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $139,471 is higher than 39% of the 121 federal agencies (47 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Environmental Protection Agency, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Environmental Protection Agency sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Environmental Protection Agency ranks higher than 39%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
12,513
Over $150K
0
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Environmental Protection Agency has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $139,471.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Protection Agency | 12,513 | $139,471 | 15.1 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Environmental Protection Agency has employees in 49 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 3,313 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 3,313 | $154,108 | 15.5 yrs |
| North Carolina | 1,062 | $133,536 | 14.3 yrs |
| Illinois | 850 | $130,746 | 14.9 yrs |
| Georgia | 757 | $128,385 | 15.7 yrs |
| California | 692 | $147,132 | 14.7 yrs |
| Texas | 654 | $130,128 | 15.6 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 585 | $133,838 | 14.5 yrs |
| Colorado | 554 | $141,144 | 14.6 yrs |
| Massachusetts | 476 | $131,938 | 15.6 yrs |
| New York | 471 | $141,520 | 17 yrs |
| Kansas | 438 | $123,126 | 13.5 yrs |
| Ohio | 412 | $131,887 | 15.7 yrs |
| Washington | 396 | $139,027 | 15.2 yrs |
| Maryland | 242 | $141,410 | 14.5 yrs |
| Michigan | 232 | $140,774 | 15.2 yrs |
| New Jersey | 209 | $147,464 | 17.3 yrs |
| Virginia | 113 | $143,173 | 16 yrs |
| Oregon | 90 | $132,403 | 12.4 yrs |
| Florida | 88 | $120,554 | 12.7 yrs |
| Minnesota | 63 | $122,479 | 13.1 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 49 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: -38.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +17 | -48 | -31 |
| May 2026 | +0 | -7 | -7 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Environmental Protection Agency against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-31
+17 / −48
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.11%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Environmental Protection Agency
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
14
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
2
TRANSFER IN - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
1
Separation Reasons
QUIT
24
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
15
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
7
OTHER SEPARATION
5
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
4
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Environmental Protection Agency
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Department of Energy
Department of State
Department of Labor
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
General Services Administration
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Environmental Protection Agency on OPM FedScope averages that vary across the full agency corpus, not duty-station geography or sub-agency hierarchy.
Similar average salary
Nearest agency-wide average salaries ($139,471 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (15.1 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Environmental Protection Agency'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 Environmental Protection Agency'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.