General Education and Training

What the Numbers Say About General Education and Training

0.6% of the federal civilian workforce (2,289,472 employees total, March 2025) works in the General Education and Training occupation (OPM code 1701): 13,748 people, headcount up 3.1% 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.

The average salary for General Education and Training is $97,574 per year, placing it 11.2% below the overall federal civilian average of $109,869. Salaries moved down by -1.0% from the prior period, a modest shift, consistent with routine locality pay and grade-level movement. Average length of service in this role is 10.1 years, a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career.

General Education and Training sits inside the Education Group family (code 17), which contains 10 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for General Education and Training postings should also review these sibling occupations, since federal hiring managers often cross-post positions across closely related codes when recruitment is difficult. All figures here come directly from OPM FedScope Employment Cubes, the same official source referenced in federal workforce planning, budget justifications, and GAO reports.

Inside the Education Group family (10 occupations, 41,420 employees combined), General Education and Training holds the #1 spot by headcount, a 33.2% share of the family total. Its average salary ranks in the bottom half (40th percentile) of pay among Education Group occupations.