Government Publishing Office
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Government Publishing Office, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Government Publishing Office
Government Publishing Office is a smaller federal agency: 1,625 employees (0.1% of the federal civilian workforce) across 29 states (including DC). At an average salary of $115,990 it pays near the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 0.1% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Government Publishing Office - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (1,625 employees · $115,990 avg).
- HEAD 1,625
- RANK #31/126
- PAY $115,990
- LOS 17.7 yrs
- SHARE 0.1%
- STATES 29
- NET +0
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Equal Employment Opportunity
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1,677 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Government Publishing Office ranks #31 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 →
Government Publishing Office pay book (lean avg)
Lean-pay strip (1,625 employees · $115,990 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$115,990
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
-1.1%
Where Government Publishing Office ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $115,990 is higher than 15% of the 121 federal agencies (18 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Government Publishing Office, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Government Publishing Office sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Government Publishing Office ranks higher than 15%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
1,625
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
0
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Government Publishing Office has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $115,990.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Government Publishing Office | 1,625 | $115,990 | 17.7 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Government Publishing Office has employees in 29 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 1,244 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 1,244 | $118,521 | 18.8 yrs |
| Mississippi | 151 | $105,003 | 10.4 yrs |
| Colorado | 28 | $71,997 | 14 yrs |
| Texas | 17 | $103,464 | 12 yrs |
| Virginia | 17 | $112,606 | 13.6 yrs |
| Maryland | 16 | $99,090 | 26.7 yrs |
| Georgia | 15 | $119,054 | 16.5 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | $110,237 | 12 yrs |
| Florida | 9 | $104,879 | 10.5 yrs |
| Ohio | 8 | $117,400 | 25 yrs |
| North Carolina | 8 | $121,938 | 18 yrs |
| Illinois | 7 | $135,729 | 23.9 yrs |
| New York | 6 | $126,840 | 12.5 yrs |
| California | 6 | $119,994 | 24.4 yrs |
| South Carolina | 5 | $134,550 | 20.3 yrs |
| Washington | 4 | $98,102 | 15.9 yrs |
| New Jersey | 2 | $100,479 | 18.3 yrs |
| Delaware | 2 | $156,135 | 18.7 yrs |
| Minnesota | 2 | $174,019 | 17.1 yrs |
| Michigan | 2 | $91,908 | 5.2 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 29 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: +0.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +6 | -7 | -1 |
| Aug 2025 | +1 | -0 | +1 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Government Publishing Office against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-1
+6 / −7
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.04%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Government Publishing Office
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
7
Separation Reasons
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
5
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
1
QUIT
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Government Publishing Office
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Office of Personnel Management
Federal Communications Commission
National Science Foundation
Federal Reserve System
National Labor Relations Board
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Government Publishing Office 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 ($115,990 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (17.7 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Government Publishing Office'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 Government Publishing Office'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.