General Services Administration
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for General Services Administration, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
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Employment stock June 2026 General Services Administration
General Services Administration is a mid-sized federal agency: 8,282 employees (0.4% of the federal civilian workforce) across 51 states (including DC). At an average salary of $135,215 it pays above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 0.5% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for General Services Administration - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (8,282 employees · $135,215 avg).
- HEAD 8,282
- RANK #20/126
- PAY $135,215
- LOS 16.7 yrs
- SHARE 0.4%
- STATES 51
- NET -15
- SUBS 17
- PHOTO Department of Housing and Ur
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Headcount peers
Photo peer: Department of Housing and Urban Development (5,859 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, General Services Administration ranks #20 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 · General Services Administration
How General Services Administration pay compares to the federal average of $117,339.
Sub-agencies by average pay band
Employees counted under the sub-agency whose average salary falls in each band, not an individual pay distribution. Covers 8,282 of General Services Administration's staff assigned to mapped sub-agencies.
- Under $80k: 17 (0%)
- $80k–$100k: 33 (0%)
- $120k–$150k: 7,611 (92%)
- $150k+: 621 (7%)
Agency Average
$135,215
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+15.2%
Where General Services Administration ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $135,215 is higher than 35% of the 121 federal agencies (42 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like General Services Administration, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where General Services Administration sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; General Services Administration ranks higher than 35%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
17
$80K–$100K
33
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
7,611
Over $150K
621
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
General Services Administration has 17 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $166,935.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Acquisition Service | 3,261 | $135,314 | 16.1 yrs |
| Public Buildings Service | 3,159 | $131,282 | 16.7 yrs |
| Office of the Chief Financial Officer | 486 | $127,534 | 18.4 yrs |
| Office of GSA It | 289 | $160,450 | 18.9 yrs |
| Office of Inspector General | 233 | $146,474 | 17 yrs |
| Office of the Human Resources Management | 203 | $134,267 | 18.8 yrs |
| Office of Governmentwide Policy | 186 | $165,067 | 17.1 yrs |
| Office of General Counsel | 115 | $166,935 | 17.1 yrs |
| Office of Mission Assurance | 82 | $137,159 | 19.2 yrs |
| Office of Administrative Services | 64 | $135,924 | 17.3 yrs |
| Office of Strategic Communication | 59 | $137,487 | 15.2 yrs |
| Immediate Office of the Administrator | 33 | $80,510 | 6.1 yrs |
| Office of Small Business Utilization | 31 | $139,339 | 18 yrs |
| Civilian Board of Contract Appeals | 31 | $162,065 | 22.1 yrs |
| Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs | 21 | $145,247 | 19.3 yrs |
| Offices of the Regional Administrators | 17 | $20,549 | 10.8 yrs |
| Office of Civil Rights | 12 | $149,368 | 17.9 yrs |
Geographic Presence
General Services Administration has employees in 51 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 2,111 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 2,111 | $150,379 | 17 yrs |
| Texas | 742 | $123,010 | 17.3 yrs |
| California | 493 | $139,481 | 16.7 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 475 | $136,374 | 16.2 yrs |
| Georgia | 457 | $128,687 | 18.1 yrs |
| Missouri | 443 | $119,001 | 16.9 yrs |
| New York | 415 | $138,347 | 15 yrs |
| Illinois | 350 | $137,217 | 18.1 yrs |
| Colorado | 285 | $139,288 | 15.6 yrs |
| Florida | 258 | $124,228 | 16.5 yrs |
| Maryland | 241 | $146,257 | 17.4 yrs |
| Washington | 228 | $130,235 | 15.4 yrs |
| Virginia | 211 | $135,862 | 15.9 yrs |
| Massachusetts | 170 | $140,425 | 17.2 yrs |
| North Carolina | 124 | $131,266 | 15.9 yrs |
| Ohio | 103 | $127,453 | 16.8 yrs |
| New Jersey | 80 | $132,799 | 15.1 yrs |
| Michigan | 79 | $123,996 | 15.8 yrs |
| Arizona | 70 | $120,477 | 15.4 yrs |
| Alabama | 68 | $118,708 | 16.4 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 51 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 4 months: -15.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +9 | -23 | -14 |
| May 2026 | +1 | -2 | -1 |
| Mar 2026 | +1 | -0 | +1 |
| Oct 2025 | +0 | -1 | -1 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — General Services Administration against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-14
+9 / −23
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.06%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave General Services Administration
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
6
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
5
Separation Reasons
QUIT
16
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
4
OTHER SEPARATION
2
RETIREMENT - EARLY OUT
2
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
1
Sub-agencies by average tenure
Agency-wide average length of service is 16.7 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
33
Sub-agency avg 10–15 yrs
17
Sub-agency avg 15–20 yrs
8,201
Sub-agency avg over 20 yrs
31
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to General Services Administration
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Labor
Department of State
Small Business Administration
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Smithsonian Institution
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for General Services Administration 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 ($135,215 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (16.7 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: General Services Administration'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 General Services Administration'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.