Merit Systems Protection Board
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Merit Systems Protection Board, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Merit Systems Protection Board
Merit Systems Protection Board is a smaller federal agency: 155 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 13 states (including DC). At an average salary of $168,158 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 1.3% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Merit Systems Protection Board - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (155 employees · $168,158 avg).
- HEAD 155
- RANK #64/126
- PAY $168,158
- LOS 17.6 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 13
- NET -1
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Judicial Branch
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Judicial Branch (170 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Merit Systems Protection Board ranks #64 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 →
Merit Systems Protection Board pay book (rich avg)
Rich-pay strip (155 employees · $168,158 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$168,158
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+43.3%
Where Merit Systems Protection Board ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $168,158 is higher than 80% of the 121 federal agencies (97 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Merit Systems Protection Board, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Merit Systems Protection Board sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Merit Systems Protection Board ranks higher than 80%.
Salary Range by Sub-agency
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
155
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Merit Systems Protection Board has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $168,158.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merit Systems Protection Board | 155 | $168,158 | 17.6 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Merit Systems Protection Board has employees in 13 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 92 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 92 | $164,313 | 16.3 yrs |
| California | 13 | $171,972 | 19 yrs |
| Texas | 12 | $177,752 | 19.4 yrs |
| Illinois | 10 | $171,854 | 16.9 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | $167,489 | 28.3 yrs |
| Georgia | 9 | $163,846 | 16.3 yrs |
| Colorado | 3 | $195,617 | 20.5 yrs |
| New York | 2 | $180,123 | 14.1 yrs |
| Tennessee | 1 | $192,331 | 27.7 yrs |
| Alabama | 1 | $194,270 | 21.2 yrs |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $151,661 | 3.9 yrs |
| New Jersey | 1 | $197,200 | 24.3 yrs |
| Minnesota | 1 | $188,174 | 15.6 yrs |
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 1 months: -1.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +2 | -3 | -1 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Merit Systems Protection Board 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 Merit Systems Protection Board
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
2
Separation Reasons
QUIT
2
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Merit Systems Protection Board
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Judicial Branch
Office of Special Counsel
Selective Service System
Surface Transportation Board
Federal Maritime Commission
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Merit Systems Protection Board 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 ($168,158 here).
Similar average tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (17.6 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Merit Systems Protection Board'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 Merit Systems Protection Board'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.