Management and Program Analysis

What the Numbers Say About Management and Program Analysis

4.3% of the federal civilian workforce (2,289,472 employees total, March 2025) works in the Management and Program Analysis occupation (OPM code 343): 97,742 people, headcount up 1.0% versus the prior period, a workforce-scale shift government watchers track closely, since swings this large move federal staffing totals meaningfully.

Management and Program Analysis pays $128,460 per year on average, 16.9% above the $109,869 federal civilian average, after moving up 2.3% 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 14.9 years, a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career.

Management and Program Analysis sits inside the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family (code 3), which contains 28 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Management and Program Analysis 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 General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family, Management and Program Analysis is one of the top 28 occupations by headcount (#2), accounting for 28.8% of the family's combined 339,466 employees.

Management and Program Analysis 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 General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family is staffed federal-wide, with an average salary that ranks in the top half (89th percentile) of pay among General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group occupations. Within the family, the largest occupations by headcount are Miscellaneous Administration and Program at 111,646, Management and Program Analysis at 97,742, and Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant at 45,351, ahead of 25 smaller occupations in the same family. Together, these top 3 occupations account for 75.0% of the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family's 339,466 total employees. Nationally, Management and Program Analysis's average salary of $128,460 sits at the 83rd 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 Management and Program Analysis's own 1.0% increase. Average tenure across these 5 large occupation series runs 11.7 years; Management and Program Analysis's own 14.9-year average is longer than that peer-group average.