Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is a smaller federal agency: 733 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 24 states (including DC). At an average salary of $158,974 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 1.6% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (733 employees · $158,974 avg).
- HEAD 733
- RANK #40/126
- PAY $158,974
- LOS 17.3 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 24
- NET -11
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Railroad Retirement Board
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Railroad Retirement Board (684 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ranks #40 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 →
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation pay book (rich avg)
Rich-pay strip (733 employees · $158,974 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$158,974
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+35.5%
Where Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $158,974 is higher than 66% of the 121 federal agencies (80 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ranks higher than 66%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
733
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $158,974.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation | 733 | $158,974 | 17.3 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has employees in 24 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 620 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 620 | $160,659 | 17.7 yrs |
| Maryland | 23 | $158,344 | 19 yrs |
| Texas | 11 | $148,453 | 11.4 yrs |
| Virginia | 11 | $157,410 | 17.6 yrs |
| Ohio | 9 | $130,565 | 13.9 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | $137,626 | 10.9 yrs |
| Florida | 7 | $143,142 | 17.9 yrs |
| New Jersey | 6 | $170,863 | 11.4 yrs |
| Georgia | 6 | $139,320 | 15.3 yrs |
| New York | 5 | $148,107 | 9.7 yrs |
| Michigan | 3 | $140,375 | 12.5 yrs |
| North Carolina | 3 | $162,342 | 11.9 yrs |
| Washington | 2 | $130,988 | 10.4 yrs |
| California | 2 | $142,700 | 12.4 yrs |
| Minnesota | 1 | $127,643 | 15.2 yrs |
| Missouri | 1 | $144,875 | 11.5 yrs |
| Tennessee | 1 | $192,331 | 19 yrs |
| Alaska | 1 | $156,439 | 17.1 yrs |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $122,442 | 3.2 yrs |
| Oregon | 1 | $171,665 | 18.8 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 24 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: -11.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +0 | -12 | -12 |
| May 2026 | +1 | -0 | +1 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-12
+0 / −12
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.00%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
1
Separation Reasons
QUIT
7
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
2
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
2
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
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Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 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 ($158,974 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (17.3 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation'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 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation'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.