Railroad Retirement Board
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Railroad Retirement Board, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Railroad Retirement Board
Railroad Retirement Board is a smaller federal agency: 684 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) across 38 states (including DC). At an average salary of $112,310 it pays near the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 0.7% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Railroad Retirement Board - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (684 employees · $112,310 avg).
- HEAD 684
- RANK #41/126
- PAY $112,310
- LOS 18 yrs
- SHARE 0.0%
- STATES 38
- NET -3
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Pension Benefit Guaranty Cor
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (733 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Railroad Retirement Board ranks #41 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 →
Railroad Retirement Board pay book (lean avg)
Lean-pay strip (684 employees · $112,310 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$112,310
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
-4.3%
Where Railroad Retirement Board ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $112,310 is higher than 12% of the 121 federal agencies (15 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Railroad Retirement 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 Railroad Retirement Board sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Railroad Retirement Board ranks higher than 12%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
684
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
0
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Railroad Retirement Board has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $112,310.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Railroad Retirement Board | 684 | $112,310 | 18 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Railroad Retirement Board has employees in 38 states (including DC). Illinois has the most with 426 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 426 | $114,458 | 17.9 yrs |
| Texas | 23 | $105,422 | 18.4 yrs |
| California | 22 | $118,730 | 19.1 yrs |
| Florida | 18 | $106,853 | 18.8 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | $97,275 | 18.8 yrs |
| Virginia | 12 | $125,717 | 15.8 yrs |
| Missouri | 11 | $99,256 | 17.5 yrs |
| Ohio | 11 | $100,559 | 18.9 yrs |
| New York | 10 | $102,482 | 16.4 yrs |
| Maryland | 8 | $144,235 | 18.3 yrs |
| Minnesota | 7 | $106,662 | 14.4 yrs |
| Washington | 7 | $110,025 | 15.3 yrs |
| West Virginia | 6 | $89,638 | 14.4 yrs |
| Tennessee | 6 | $89,223 | 15.6 yrs |
| Nebraska | 5 | $119,289 | 25 yrs |
| Indiana | 5 | $119,843 | 19.9 yrs |
| Louisiana | 5 | $85,311 | 17.8 yrs |
| North Carolina | 5 | $129,068 | 32.3 yrs |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $114,856 | 17.8 yrs |
| Georgia | 5 | $94,611 | 13.2 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 38 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 1 months: -3.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +0 | -3 | -3 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Railroad Retirement Board against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-3
+0 / −3
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 Railroad Retirement Board
Separation Reasons
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
2
QUIT
1
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Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Railroad Retirement Board
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Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Railroad Retirement Board on OPM FedScope averages that vary across the full agency corpus, not duty-station geography or sub-agency hierarchy.
Peers near this lean pay band
Nearest agency-wide average salaries ($112,310 here).
Peers near this dense headcount 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: Railroad Retirement 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 Railroad Retirement 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.