Small Business Administration
Headcount, average pay, length of service, sub-agencies, and hiring trends for Small Business Administration, drawn directly from the OPM Federal Workforce Data (June 2026).
OPM FedScope stock folio
Employment stock June 2026 Small Business Administration
Small Business Administration is a smaller federal agency: 5,086 employees (0.3% of the federal civilian workforce) across 51 states (including DC). At an average salary of $101,353 it pays below the federal average of $117,339, and headcount declined 0.2% from the prior period.
Monthly FedScope employment stock for Small Business Administration - headcount, pay, tenure, and nearest peer names from the same OPM extract (5,086 employees · $101,353 avg).
- HEAD 5,086
- RANK #22/126
- PAY $101,353
- LOS 9.4 yrs
- SHARE 0.3%
- STATES 51
- NET -2,655
- SUBS 1
- PHOTO Federal Deposit Insurance Co
- BOOK OPM FWD
Headcount peers
Photo peer: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (5,009 employees)
According to OPM FedScope June 2026, Small Business Administration ranks #22 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 →
Small Business Administration pay book (lean avg)
Lean-pay strip (5,086 employees · $101,353 avg) vs federal average $117,339.
Agency Average
$101,353
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
-13.6%
Where Small Business Administration ranks on pay
Ranked by agency (not weighted by headcount), its average salary of $101,353 is higher than 8% of the 121 federal agencies (10 pay less on average). Smaller specialized agencies often post higher per-employee averages than large ones like Small Business Administration, so this agency-count rank can differ from a comparison to the government-wide, employee-weighted average shown above. The highlighted bar marks where Small Business Administration sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 121 federal agencies; Small Business Administration ranks higher than 8%.
Sub-agency pay span (dense agency)
Under $80K
0
$80K–$100K
0
$100K–$120K
5,086
$120K–$150K
0
Over $150K
0
Sub-agencies & Organizational Units
Small Business Administration has 1 sub-agencies. The highest-paying unit averages $101,353.
| Sub-agency | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Business Administration | 5,086 | $101,353 | 9.4 yrs |
Geographic Presence
Small Business Administration has employees in 51 states (including DC). Texas has the most with 1,159 employees.
| State | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,159 | $90,861 | 9.3 yrs |
| District of Columbia | 624 | $148,082 | 13.3 yrs |
| California | 513 | $103,551 | 9.9 yrs |
| Georgia | 351 | $85,339 | 6.7 yrs |
| Florida | 327 | $80,861 | 6.4 yrs |
| Virginia | 278 | $112,048 | 10 yrs |
| New York | 193 | $101,332 | 9.3 yrs |
| Colorado | 116 | $121,014 | 14.8 yrs |
| Alabama | 113 | $85,514 | 9.8 yrs |
| Maryland | 107 | $94,282 | 6.6 yrs |
| North Carolina | 79 | $83,559 | 5.4 yrs |
| Louisiana | 77 | $79,164 | 7.3 yrs |
| Illinois | 75 | $95,727 | 6.5 yrs |
| Pennsylvania | 70 | $105,325 | 7.8 yrs |
| New Jersey | 62 | $92,943 | 5.7 yrs |
| Ohio | 58 | $96,567 | 8.9 yrs |
| Arizona | 50 | $92,322 | 9.6 yrs |
| Missouri | 49 | $98,141 | 8.6 yrs |
| South Carolina | 45 | $85,524 | 6.7 yrs |
| Mississippi | 42 | $76,864 | 8.6 yrs |
Showing top 20 of 51 states
Workforce Dynamics
Dynamics feed (RSS)Monthly hiring and separation trends. Net change over 12 months: -2,655.
| Month | Accessions | Separations | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | +36 | -46 | -10 |
| May 2026 | +38 | -119 | -81 |
| Apr 2026 | +13 | -54 | -41 |
| Mar 2026 | +29 | -115 | -86 |
| Feb 2026 | +14 | -169 | -155 |
| Jan 2026 | +53 | -488 | -435 |
| Dec 2025 | +10 | -84 | -74 |
| Nov 2025 | +32 | -307 | -275 |
| Oct 2025 | +36 | -142 | -106 |
| Sep 2025 | +19 | -1,270 | -1,251 |
| Aug 2025 | +10 | -113 | -103 |
| Jul 2025 | +10 | -48 | -38 |
vs Federal Hiring Climate
OPM FedScope dynamics for Jun 2026 — Small Business Administration against the same-month federal civilian totals (not a forecast).
Agency net (Jun 2026)
-10
+36 / −46
Federal net (Jun 2026)
+311
+16,610 / −16,299
Share of federal accessions
0.22%
Moved against the federal climate this month
Hiring & Separation Reasons
Why employees join and leave Small Business Administration, Jul 2025–Jun 2026
Accession Reasons
NEW HIRE - EXCEPTED SERVICE APPOINTMENT
218
NEW HIRE - COMPETITIVE SERVICE APPOINTMENT
68
TRANSFER IN - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
10
NEW HIRE - SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE (SES) APPT
4
Separation Reasons
QUIT
1,259
TERMINATION (EXPIRED APPT/OTHER)
1,070
RETIREMENT - VOLUNTARY
434
RETIREMENT - EARLY OUT
82
TRANSFER OUT - INDIVIDUAL TRANSFER
71
Similar-Sized Agencies
Federal agencies with a similar workforce size to Small Business Administration
Showing 6 of 125 other federal agencies.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Smithsonian Institution
Securities and Exchange Commission
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
National Archives and Records Administration
Nationwide agencies with similar pay or tenure
Two peer sets for Small Business Administration 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 ($101,353 here).
Peers near this dense headcount tenure
Nearest agency-wide average length of service (9.4 years here).
How these figures are calculated
The pay percentile above is computed live from PlainGovJobs' own OPM FedScope database, not hand-typed: Small Business Administration'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 Small Business Administration'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.