Information Technology Management

What the Numbers Say About Information Technology Management

4.4% of the federal civilian workforce (2,289,472 employees total, March 2025) works in the Information Technology Management occupation (OPM code 2210): 101,332 people, headcount up 0.3% versus the prior period, a workforce-scale shift government watchers track closely, since swings this large move federal staffing totals meaningfully.

Average tenure in Information Technology Management runs 12.7 years, a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career. Pay averages $133,386 per year, 21.4% above the $109,869 federal civilian average and up 2.4% from the prior period, a broad shift as locality pay tables and grade-level adjustments moved through the workforce.

Code 22, the Information Technology Group family, is where the federal government classifies Information Technology Management alongside 2 related occupations. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Information Technology Management 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.

Information Technology Management makes up 99.5% of the 101,814 employees across the Information Technology Group family, ranking #1 of 3 occupations in that family by headcount.

Information Technology Management is one of just 5 federal occupation series with 50,000 or more employees, out of 634 tracked in OPM FedScope for the March 2025 reporting window -- a scale that makes it a defining occupation for how the Information Technology Group family is staffed federal-wide, with an average salary that ranks in the bottom half (33rd percentile) of pay among Information Technology Group occupations. Within the family, the largest occupations by headcount are Information Technology Management at 101,332, Information Technology Student Trainee at 271, and DHS Cybersecurity Specialist (for DHS Use Only) at 211. Together, these top 3 occupations account for 100.0% of the Information Technology Group family's 101,814 total employees. Nationally, Information Technology Management's average salary of $133,386 sits at the 86th percentile among all 634 federal occupation series tracked in FedScope, above the federal-wide median for occupation-level average pay -- headcount and pay rank independently of each other, so a large occupation series is not guaranteed to also rank high on the pay scale. Among this same group of 5 occupation series at 50,000-plus employees, headcount changed by an average of 0.5% from the prior period, versus Information Technology Management's own 0.3% increase. Average tenure across these 5 large occupation series runs 11.7 years; Information Technology Management's own 12.7-year average is longer than that peer-group average.