National Transportation Safety Board
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for National Transportation Safety Board, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 National Transportation Safety Board
National Transportation Safety Board is a smaller federal agency: 406 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 29 states (including DC). At an average salary of $163,783 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for National Transportation Safety Board - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (406 employees · $163,783 avg).
- HEAD 406
- RANK #48/126
- PAY $163,783
- LOS 18 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 29
- NET +3
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO U.S. International Trade Com
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: U.S. International Trade Commission (402 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, National Transportation Safety Board ranks #48 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 →
National Transportation Safety Board pay book (rich avg)
Rich-pay strip (406 employees · $163,783 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$163,783
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+39.6%
Where National Transportation Safety Board ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $163,783 is higher than 75% of the 121 federal agencies (91 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like National Transportation Safety 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 National Transportation Safety Board sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; National Transportation Safety Board ranks higher than 75%.
Salary Range by Sub-agency
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
406
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
National Transportation Safety Board has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $163,783.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Transportation Safety Board | 406 | $163,783 | 18 yrs |
Geographic Presence
National Transportation Safety Board has employees in 29 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 227 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 227 | $166,938 | 18.4 yrs |
| California | 8 | $164,831 | 20.7 yrs |
| Virginia | 6 | $138,232 | 20.6 yrs |
| Florida | 6 | $154,106 | 19.9 yrs |
| Washington | 5 | $128,105 | 18.3 yrs |
| Colorado | 5 | $174,616 | 23.3 yrs |
| Texas | 5 | $170,223 | 19.4 yrs |
| Maryland | 5 | $160,149 | 14.3 yrs |
| North Carolina | 4 | $175,724 | 16.6 yrs |
| Montana | 3 | $165,716 | 14.4 yrs |
| Minnesota | 3 | $130,628 | 9 yrs |
| Illinois | 3 | $157,289 | 23.8 yrs |
| Alaska | 3 | $151,315 | 18.5 yrs |
| South Carolina | 2 | $124,076 | 17.9 yrs |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $155,962 | 13.2 yrs |
| Ohio | 2 | $134,033 | 6.3 yrs |
| Arkansas | 2 | $141,427 | 9 yrs |
| Georgia | 2 | $159,620 | 26.9 yrs |
| Maine | 2 | $172,257 | 9.6 yrs |
| Michigan | 1 | $161,860 | 16.3 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 29 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 1 months: +3.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +4 | -1 | +3 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — National Transportation Safety Board against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
+3
+4 / −1
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.03%
Moved with the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave National Transportation Safety Board
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
2
TRANSFER IN - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
1
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
1
Separation Reasons
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to National Transportation Safety Board
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
U.S. International Trade Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Corp for National and Community Service
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Presidio Trust
Farm Credit Administration
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for National Transportation Safety 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 ($163,783 here).
Similar average tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (18 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: National Transportation Safety 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 National Transportation Safety 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.