General Legal and Kindred Administration

What the Numbers Say About General Legal and Kindred Administration

As of the March 2025 reporting window, 9,754 people work in the General Legal and Kindred Administration occupation (OPM code 901) across federal agencies, 0.4% of the 2,289,472-strong federal civilian workforce. Headcount moved down by -2.0% from 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.

General Legal and Kindred Administration pays $79,549 per year on average, 27.6% below the $109,869 federal civilian average, after moving up 4.2% from the prior period (a broad shift as locality pay tables and grade-level adjustments moved through the workforce). Employees in this role stay an average of 10.9 years, a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career.

Code 9, the Legal and Kindred Group family, is where the federal government classifies General Legal and Kindred Administration alongside 17 related occupations. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for General Legal and Kindred Administration 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.

Within the Legal and Kindred Group family, General Legal and Kindred Administration ranks #4 of 18 by headcount, accounting for 7.3% of the family's combined 133,580 employees. Its average salary ranks in the bottom half (33rd percentile) of pay among Legal and Kindred Group occupations.