Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Nuclear Regulatory Commission, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a smaller federal agency: 2,477 employees (0.1% of the federal civilian workforce) across 40 states (including DC). At an average salary of $158,599 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount grew 0.8% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Nuclear Regulatory Commission - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (2,477 employees · $158,599 avg).
- HEAD 2,477
- RANK #26/126
- PAY $158,599
- LOS 19.4 yrs
- SHARE 0.1%
- STATES 40
- NET +19
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO National Archives and Record
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: National Archives and Records Administration (2,349 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Nuclear Regulatory Commission ranks #26 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 →
Nuclear Regulatory Commission pay book (rich avg)
Rich-pay strip (2,477 employees · $158,599 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$158,599
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+35.2%
Where Nuclear Regulatory Commission ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $158,599 is higher than 65% of the 121 federal agencies (79 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Nuclear Regulatory Commission, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Nuclear Regulatory Commission sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Nuclear Regulatory Commission ranks higher than 65%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
2,477
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Nuclear Regulatory Commission has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $158,599.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 2,477 | $158,599 | 19.4 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Nuclear Regulatory Commission has employees in 40 states (including DC). Maryland has the most with 1,536 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 1,536 | $163,309 | 19.9 yrs |
| Georgia | 127 | $143,498 | 19.1 yrs |
| Texas | 126 | $149,072 | 19.8 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 111 | $142,768 | 17.6 yrs |
| Illinois | 111 | $146,876 | 18.2 yrs |
| Tennessee | 29 | $147,061 | 23.3 yrs |
| Virginia | 17 | $169,349 | 18.4 yrs |
| Florida | 14 | $142,886 | 18.8 yrs |
| North Carolina | 10 | $164,820 | 20.8 yrs |
| South Carolina | 9 | $139,226 | 21.7 yrs |
| California | 8 | $168,454 | 10.6 yrs |
| Ohio | 8 | $185,486 | 12.7 yrs |
| New York | 7 | $131,948 | 7.3 yrs |
| Michigan | 6 | $124,819 | 21.6 yrs |
| Wisconsin | 5 | $152,906 | 10.5 yrs |
| Indiana | 4 | $128,506 | 14.7 yrs |
| Missouri | 4 | $116,396 | 16.1 yrs |
| Washington | 4 | $147,534 | 13.5 yrs |
| Colorado | 3 | $184,160 | 18.8 yrs |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $138,126 | 20.9 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 40 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: +19.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +32 | -11 | +21 |
| May 2026 | +0 | -2 | -2 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Nuclear Regulatory Commission against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
+21
+32 / −11
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.20%
Moved with the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
32
Separation Reasons
QUIT
8
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
2
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
1
RETIREMENT - OTHER
1
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
National Archives and Records Administration
Department of Education
Office of Personnel Management
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Government Publishing Office
Federal Communications Commission
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Nuclear Regulatory Commission 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 ($158,599 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (19.4 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Nuclear Regulatory Commission'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 Nuclear Regulatory Commission'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.