Equipment Services
Everything OPM FedScope (June 2026) reports about the Equipment Services occupation series (code 1670): headcount, average salary, length of service, and pay comparison.
The verdict
Equipment Services is a smaller, specialized federal occupation: 5,166 employees (0.3% of the federal civilian workforce) in the Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group family. At an average salary of $108,645 it pays near the federal average, and headcount declined from the prior period.
- Headcount change
- -2.0%
- Pay change
- +0.2%
- Avg tenure
- 16.5 yrs
- Rank in family
- #2 of 8
FedScope read on Equipment Services (dense series)
Headcount moved down versus the prior period, a useful gauge for job seekers on USAJOBS trying to assess whether this role is expanding government-wide or contracting under hiring freezes and attrition. Pay moved up between the two reporting periods, a small shift, within the range of normal year-to-year rounding rather than a broad pay-table change. On length of service, this series shows a long average tenure, typical of career federal roles where employees stay through much of a full career before retirement.
Equipment Services sits inside the Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group family (code 16), which contains 8 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Equipment Services postings should also review these sibling occupations in the Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group family. The Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group family totals 15,807 employees, and Equipment Services accounts for 32.7% of them. Its average salary ranks right at the midpoint of pay among Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group occupations.
Salary Context
How Equipment Services pay compares to the federal average
Occupation Average
$108,645
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
-7.4%
Where Equipment Services ranks on federal pay
Equipment Services earns more on average than 60% of federal occupation series (323 of 541). The highlighted bar marks where Equipment Services sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 541 federal occupation series; the highlighted bar marks Equipment Services.
Related Occupations in Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group
7 other occupations in the same family
| Occupation | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equipment Facilities, and Services | 5,680 | $110,317 | 17.2 yrs |
| Facility Operations Services | 3,223 | $115,355 | 17.3 yrs |
| Equipment, Facilities, and Services Assistance | 576 | $65,962 | 12.1 yrs |
| Cemetery Administration Services | 414 | $84,117 | 13.6 yrs |
| Food Services | 388 | $105,849 | 15.4 yrs |
| Printing Services | 327 | $130,018 | 19.2 yrs |
| Laundry Operations Services | 33 | $88,165 | 19.9 yrs |
Nationwide peers near this dense headcount
Two peer sets for Equipment Services outside the Equipment, Facilities, and Services 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 (5,166 here).
Similar average salary
Nearest average salaries in other occupation families ($108,645 here).
Key takeaways
- Place Equipment Services 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 Equipment, Facilities, and Services Group family occupations in the table above, or search current Equipment Services 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.