Peace Corps
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Peace Corps, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Peace Corps
Peace Corps is a smaller federal agency: 610 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 30 states (including DC). At an average salary of $148,998 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 1.3% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Peace Corps - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (610 employees · $148,998 avg).
- HEAD 610
- RANK #42/126
- PAY $148,998
- LOS 12.4 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 30
- NET -342
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Federal Housing Finance Agen
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Federal Housing Finance Agency (598 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Peace Corps ranks #42 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 · Peace Corps
How Peace Corps pay compares to the federal average of $117,339.
Agency Average
$148,998
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+27.0%
Where Peace Corps ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $148,998 is higher than 51% of the 121 federal agencies (62 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Peace Corps, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Peace Corps sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Peace Corps ranks higher than 51%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
610
Over $150K
0
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Peace Corps has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $148,998.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Corps | 610 | $148,998 | 12.4 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Peace Corps has employees in 30 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 283 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 283 | $151,639 | 12.8 yrs |
| Maryland | 22 | $141,367 | 9.5 yrs |
| Virginia | 21 | $134,079 | 12.4 yrs |
| Florida | 14 | $114,847 | 10.1 yrs |
| California | 11 | $123,723 | 11.1 yrs |
| Texas | 10 | $137,378 | 16.3 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | $137,023 | 11.5 yrs |
| Washington | 6 | $125,071 | 9.8 yrs |
| Colorado | 5 | $144,684 | 15.3 yrs |
| North Carolina | 4 | $145,265 | 15.6 yrs |
| New Jersey | 4 | $153,109 | 14.9 yrs |
| Michigan | 4 | $104,244 | 11.6 yrs |
| Minnesota | 4 | $135,784 | 15.7 yrs |
| Georgia | 4 | $136,674 | 12.2 yrs |
| Oregon | 4 | $141,539 | 7.9 yrs |
| Maine | 3 | $167,082 | 15.1 yrs |
| New York | 3 | $129,778 | 10.9 yrs |
| Illinois | 3 | $157,341 | 7.1 yrs |
| Kentucky | 2 | $127,197 | 17 yrs |
| South Carolina | 2 | $104,788 | 20 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 30 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 12 months: -342.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +0 | -7 | -7 |
| May 2026 | +1 | -33 | -32 |
| Apr 2026 | +0 | -9 | -9 |
| Mar 2026 | +2 | -6 | -4 |
| Feb 2026 | +2 | -6 | -4 |
| Jan 2026 | +0 | -46 | -46 |
| Dec 2025 | +0 | -6 | -6 |
| Nov 2025 | +1 | -7 | -6 |
| Oct 2025 | +0 | -1 | -1 |
| Sep 2025 | +1 | -216 | -215 |
| Aug 2025 | +0 | -4 | -4 |
| Jul 2025 | +0 | -8 | -8 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Peace Corps against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-7
+0 / −7
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+311
+16,610 / −16,299
Share of federal accessions
0.00%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Peace Corps, Jul 2025–Jun 2026
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
7
Separation Reasons
QUIT
225
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
59
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
55
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
7
RETIREMENT - EARLY OUT
2
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Peace Corps
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Railroad Retirement Board
Dfc
Office of Management and Budget
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Peace Corps 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 ($148,998 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (12.4 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Peace Corps'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 Peace Corps'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.