Editorial Process
Every figure on PlainGovJobs traces back to a named public source, computed by documented pipelines. PlainGovJobs publishes under one organizational byline rather than personal ones: the publisher is accountable for the data framing, methodology, and corrections you read here.
Download the 51-jurisdiction duty-station extract: federal-workforce-by-state.csv (same extract as /statistics).
According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management FedScope dataset (June 2026), PlainGovJobs publishes statistics on 1,953,300 federal civilian employees across 126 agencies and 663 occupation series. Every figure published here is traced back to its official public source and computed by deterministic pipelines, not hand-entered. Our methodology sets out exactly how each dataset is sourced, computed, and refreshed, and the about page explains how we handle corrections when a reader flags something. The byline below is the publishing organization itself, not an individual writer: these pages are generated from documented pipelines rather than individually reported, so accountability for the framing and for correcting it sits with the publisher.
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Plaingovjobs is a data journalism portal that focuses on federal workforce jobs using public government data to provide detailed analyses and visualizations for public insight. The portal's content is compiled by our editorial process, and the team does not accept payment from entities it covers to maintain independence. As a PlainGovJobs publication, Plaingovjobs delivers neutral coverage of employment trends and policies in the federal sector.
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PlainGovJobs is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.