Consumer Safety
Everything OPM FedScope (June 2026) reports about the Consumer Safety occupation series (code 0696): headcount, average salary, length of service, and pay comparison.
The verdict
Consumer Safety is a smaller, specialized federal occupation: 3,417 employees (0.2% of the federal civilian workforce) in the Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group family. At an average salary of $138,495 it pays above the federal average, and headcount edged down from the prior period.
- Headcount change
- -0.6%
- Pay change
- +0.2%
- Avg tenure
- 15.5 yrs
- Rank in family
- #17 of 45
FedScope read on Consumer Safety (dense series)
For job seekers weighing career length: this series shows a long average tenure, typical of career federal roles where employees stay through much of a full career before retirement. Headcount moved down versus the prior period, a modest but trackable signal for anyone considering this specialized federal career path. As for pay, the latest move was a small shift, within the range of normal year-to-year rounding rather than a broad pay-table change.
Consumer Safety sits inside the Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group family (code 06), which contains 45 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Consumer Safety postings should also review these sibling occupations in the Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group family. The Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group family totals 339,162 employees, and Consumer Safety accounts for 1.0% of them. Its average salary ranks in the top half (80th percentile) of pay among Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group occupations.
Salary context · rich-pay series
How Consumer Safety pay compares to the federal average
Occupation Average
$138,495
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
+18.0%
Where Consumer Safety ranks on rich federal pay
Consumer Safety earns more on average than 82% of federal occupation series (441 of 541). The highlighted bar marks where Consumer Safety sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 541 federal occupation series; the highlighted bar marks Consumer Safety.
Related Occupations in Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group
10 other occupations in the same family
| Occupation | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nurse | 106,218 | $132,267 | 10.2 yrs |
| Medical Support Assistance | 39,856 | $58,279 | 8.2 yrs |
| Medical Officer | 34,687 | $301,569 | 11.6 yrs |
| General Health Science | 17,434 | $133,765 | 11.9 yrs |
| Practical Nurse | 16,755 | $75,898 | 10.4 yrs |
| Pharmacist | 14,529 | $167,390 | 11.1 yrs |
| Nursing Assistant | 14,498 | $55,851 | 7.8 yrs |
| Health Aid and Technician | 12,490 | $61,276 | 10.8 yrs |
| Health System Specialist | 7,966 | $110,534 | 15.9 yrs |
| Pharmacy Technician | 7,658 | $70,794 | 9.5 yrs |
Nationwide peers near this dense headcount
Two peer sets for Consumer Safety outside the Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group family, on headcount and average salary axes that vary across all OPM occupation series.
Similar dense headcount
Nearest employee counts in other occupation families (3,417 here).
Similar rich average salary
Nearest average salaries in other occupation families ($138,495 here).
Key takeaways
- Place Consumer Safety pay in context with the pay-rank chart above, then compare it with another occupation.
- Turn an average salary into a grade: the GS pay grade tables show how grades and steps map to pay.
- Browse the Medical, Hospital, Dental, and Public Health Group family occupations in the table above, or search current Consumer Safety postings on USAJOBS.
OPM FedScope and Federal Workforce Data figures are federal civilian headcounts, average salaries, and length-of-service statistics - not job-quality scores, hiring advice, or a live vacancy listing. A larger or higher-paid agency is not a better employer.