Office of Special Counsel
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Office of Special Counsel, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Office of Special Counsel
Office of Special Counsel is a smaller federal agency: 127 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 15 states (including DC). At an average salary of $152,616 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount grew 2.4% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Office of Special Counsel - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (127 employees · $152,616 avg).
- HEAD 127
- RANK #65/126
- PAY $152,616
- LOS 12.7 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 15
- NET +0
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Selective Service System
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Selective Service System (126 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Office of Special Counsel ranks #65 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 →
Salary Analysis · Office of Special Counsel
How Office of Special Counsel pay compares to the federal average of $117,339.
Agency Average
$152,616
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+30.1%
Where Office of Special Counsel ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $152,616 is higher than 55% of the 121 federal agencies (67 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Office of Special Counsel, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Office of Special Counsel sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Office of Special Counsel ranks higher than 55%.
Salary Range by Sub-agency
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
127
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Office of Special Counsel has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $152,616.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office of Special Counsel | 127 | $152,616 | 12.7 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Office of Special Counsel has employees in 15 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 89 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 89 | $151,932 | 12.1 yrs |
| Texas | 7 | $153,582 | 17.4 yrs |
| Michigan | 7 | $153,799 | 15.4 yrs |
| California | 5 | $183,399 | 13.9 yrs |
| Florida | 3 | $135,872 | 12.9 yrs |
| Georgia | 2 | $120,900 | 16.6 yrs |
| Maryland | 2 | $148,534 | 17 yrs |
| Maine | 2 | $149,346 | 6.8 yrs |
| Ohio | 2 | $150,981 | 14 yrs |
| Massachusetts | 2 | $152,140 | 11.8 yrs |
| Virginia | 1 | $153,509 | 10.7 yrs |
| Colorado | 1 | $142,008 | 2.8 yrs |
| New York | 1 | $167,987 | 11.1 yrs |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $161,448 | 8.8 yrs |
| Oregon | 1 | $162,629 | 12.3 yrs |
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: +0.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +2 | -1 | +1 |
| May 2026 | +0 | -1 | -1 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Office of Special Counsel against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
+1
+2 / −1
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.01%
Moved with the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Office of Special Counsel
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
1
TRANSFER IN - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
1
Separation Reasons
QUIT
1
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Office of Special Counsel
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Selective Service System
Surface Transportation Board
Federal Maritime Commission
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Merit Systems Protection Board
Fed Mediation and Conciliation Service
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Office of Special Counsel on OPM FedScope averages that vary across the full agency corpus, not duty-station geography or sub-agency hierarchy.
Similar average salary
Nearest agency-wide average salaries ($152,616 here).
Similar average tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (12.7 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Office of Special Counsel'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 Office of Special Counsel'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.