Management and Program Analysis

FedScope read on Management and Program Analysis (dense series)

3.8% of the federal civilian workforce (1,953,300 employees total, June 2026) works in the Management and Program Analysis occupation (OPM code 0343): 73,337 people, headcount down -5.3% 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 $134,823 per year on average, moving up 0.1% from the prior period (a small shift, within the range of normal year-to-year rounding rather than a broad pay-table change). Employees in this role stay an average of 16.7 years, a long average tenure, typical of career federal roles where employees stay through much of a full career before retirement.

Management and Program Analysis sits inside the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family (code 03), which contains 31 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Management and Program Analysis postings should also review these sibling occupations in the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family.

Within the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family, Management and Program Analysis is one of the top 31 occupations by headcount (#2), accounting for 28.1% of the family's combined 260,640 employees.

Management and Program Analysis is one of just 5 federal occupation series with 50,000 or more employees, out of 541 tracked in OPM FedScope for the June 2026 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 (90th 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 84,990, Management and Program Analysis at 73,337, and Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant at 35,782, ahead of 28 smaller occupations in the same family. Together, these top 3 occupations account for 74.5% of the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family's 260,640 total employees. Nationally, Management and Program Analysis's average salary of $134,823 sits at the 78th percentile among all 541 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 -4.0% from the prior period, versus Management and Program Analysis's own 5.3% decrease. Average tenure across these 5 large occupation series runs 13.5 years; Management and Program Analysis's own 16.7-year average is longer than that peer-group average.