Judicial Branch
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Judicial Branch, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Judicial Branch
Judicial Branch is a smaller federal agency: 170 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 13 states (including DC). At an average salary of $124,428 it pays near the federal average of $117,339, and headcount grew 3.0% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Judicial Branch - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (170 employees · $124,428 avg).
- HEAD 170
- RANK #63/126
- PAY $124,428
- LOS 11.2 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 13
- NET +1
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Merit Systems Protection Boa
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Merit Systems Protection Board (155 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Judicial Branch ranks #63 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 →
Judicial Branch pay book (lean avg)
Lean-pay strip (170 employees · $124,428 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$124,428
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+6.0%
Where Judicial Branch ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $124,428 is higher than 21% of the 121 federal agencies (26 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Judicial Branch, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Judicial Branch sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Judicial Branch ranks higher than 21%.
Salary Range by Sub-agency
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
170
Over $150K
0
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Judicial Branch has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $124,428.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Tax Court | 170 | $124,428 | 11.2 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Judicial Branch has employees in 13 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 150 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 150 | $123,162 | 11.7 yrs |
| Texas | 3 | $114,133 | 8.7 yrs |
| Arizona | 3 | $131,021 | 4.9 yrs |
| Tennessee | 2 | $154,405 | 18.8 yrs |
| New York | 2 | $165,517 | 5.4 yrs |
| California | 2 | $121,515 | 4.3 yrs |
| Colorado | 2 | $111,649 | 5.1 yrs |
| Illinois | 1 | $162,740 | 10 yrs |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $142,549 | 1.6 yrs |
| Florida | 1 | $129,969 | 3.4 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $88,107 | 8.1 yrs |
| Kentucky | 1 | $138,356 | 4.6 yrs |
| Ohio | 1 | $175,077 | 5.9 yrs |
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: +1.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +2 | -3 | -1 |
| May 2026 | +2 | -0 | +2 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Judicial Branch against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-1
+2 / −3
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.01%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Judicial Branch
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
4
Separation Reasons
QUIT
2
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Judicial Branch
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Merit Systems Protection Board
Office of Special Counsel
Selective Service System
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Judicial Branch 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 ($124,428 here).
Similar average tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (11.2 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Judicial Branch'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 Judicial Branch'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.