Federal Communications Commission
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Federal Communications Commission, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission is a smaller federal agency: 1,187 employees (0.1% of the federal civilian workforce) across 27 states (including DC). At an average salary of $173,186 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 0.3% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Federal Communications Commission - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (1,187 employees · $173,186 avg).
- HEAD 1,187
- RANK #32/126
- PAY $173,186
- LOS 19.3 yrs
- SHARE 0.1%
- STATES 27
- NET -6
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO National Science Foundation
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: National Science Foundation (1,104 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Federal Communications Commission ranks #32 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 →
Federal Communications Commission pay book (rich avg)
Rich-pay strip (1,187 employees · $173,186 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$173,186
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+47.6%
Where Federal Communications Commission ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $173,186 is higher than 85% of the 121 federal agencies (103 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Federal Communications Commission, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Federal Communications Commission sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Federal Communications Commission ranks higher than 85%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
1,187
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Federal Communications Commission has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $173,186.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Communications Commission | 1,187 | $173,186 | 19.3 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Federal Communications Commission has employees in 27 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 1,021 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 1,021 | $174,657 | 19.7 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 51 | $156,246 | 19.5 yrs |
| Maryland | 35 | $172,802 | 15.6 yrs |
| California | 10 | $162,933 | 14.1 yrs |
| Georgia | 9 | $151,148 | 16.6 yrs |
| Florida | 7 | $167,938 | 18.5 yrs |
| Massachusetts | 7 | $173,050 | 15 yrs |
| New York | 6 | $153,618 | 9.7 yrs |
| North Carolina | 5 | $179,260 | 12.9 yrs |
| Texas | 5 | $154,765 | 16.6 yrs |
| Colorado | 4 | $163,686 | 15.3 yrs |
| Virginia | 4 | $154,853 | 8.9 yrs |
| Illinois | 4 | $166,025 | 14.8 yrs |
| Tennessee | 2 | $157,225 | 11 yrs |
| South Carolina | 2 | $192,331 | 21.2 yrs |
| Hawaii | 1 | $161,953 | 24.3 yrs |
| New Jersey | 1 | $192,694 | 19.3 yrs |
| Arizona | 1 | $170,234 | 3.1 yrs |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $190,822 | 12.8 yrs |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $146,742 | 2.8 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 27 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: -6.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +3 | -8 | -5 |
| Jun 2025 | +0 | -1 | -1 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Federal Communications Commission against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-5
+3 / −8
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.02%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Federal Communications Commission
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
2
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
1
Separation Reasons
QUIT
6
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
2
RETIREMENT - EARLY OUT
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Federal Communications Commission
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
National Science Foundation
Federal Reserve System
National Labor Relations Board
Federal Trade Commission
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Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Federal Communications Commission 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 ($173,186 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (19.3 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Federal Communications Commission'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 Federal Communications Commission'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.