Securities and Exchange Commission
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Securities and Exchange Commission, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission is a smaller federal agency: 3,927 employees (0.2% of the federal civilian workforce) across 30 states (including DC). At an average salary of $240,371 it pays well above the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 0.4% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Securities and Exchange Commission - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (3,927 employees · $240,371 avg).
- HEAD 3,927
- RANK #25/126
- PAY $240,371
- LOS 18.6 yrs
- SHARE 0.2%
- STATES 30
- NET -8
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Smithsonian Institution
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Smithsonian Institution (4,109 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Securities and Exchange Commission ranks #25 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 →
Securities and Exchange Commission pay book (rich avg)
Rich-pay strip (3,927 employees · $240,371 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$240,371
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+104.9%
Where Securities and Exchange Commission ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $240,371 is higher than 96% of the 121 federal agencies (116 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Securities and Exchange 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 Securities and Exchange Commission sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Securities and Exchange Commission ranks higher than 96%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
0
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
3,927
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Securities and Exchange Commission has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $240,371.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Securities and Exchange Commission | 3,927 | $240,371 | 18.6 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Securities and Exchange Commission has employees in 30 states (including DC). District of Columbia has the most with 1,995 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 1,995 | $239,874 | 18.5 yrs |
| New York | 466 | $254,316 | 18.4 yrs |
| California | 269 | $251,825 | 18.3 yrs |
| Illinois | 224 | $239,175 | 17.9 yrs |
| Massachusetts | 165 | $238,244 | 19.7 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 134 | $234,167 | 19.1 yrs |
| Texas | 101 | $229,817 | 20 yrs |
| Colorado | 99 | $233,371 | 15.6 yrs |
| Virginia | 98 | $234,392 | 20.2 yrs |
| Georgia | 98 | $233,321 | 20.8 yrs |
| Florida | 97 | $225,230 | 16.5 yrs |
| Maryland | 89 | $221,027 | 21 yrs |
| Utah | 13 | $204,544 | 14.7 yrs |
| New Jersey | 10 | $264,679 | 15.7 yrs |
| Ohio | 4 | $225,517 | 23.7 yrs |
| North Carolina | 3 | $199,289 | 7.7 yrs |
| West Virginia | 3 | $163,330 | 16.7 yrs |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $225,812 | 16.8 yrs |
| Michigan | 2 | $268,170 | 17.2 yrs |
| Tennessee | 2 | $155,050 | 9.7 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 30 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 2 months: -8.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +8 | -17 | -9 |
| Sep 2025 | +1 | -0 | +1 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Securities and Exchange Commission against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-9
+8 / −17
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+2,416
+15,984 / −13,568
Share of federal accessions
0.05%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Securities and Exchange Commission
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
9
Separation Reasons
QUIT
9
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
4
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
2
RETIREMENT - EARLY OUT
1
RETIREMENT - OTHER
1
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Securities and Exchange Commission
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Smithsonian Institution
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Small Business Administration
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
National Archives and Records Administration
Department of Education
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Securities and Exchange 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 ($240,371 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (18.6 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Securities and Exchange 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 Securities and Exchange 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.