Miscellaneous Administration and Program

FedScope read on Miscellaneous Administration and Program (dense series)

Federal agencies employ 84,990 people in the Miscellaneous Administration and Program occupation (OPM code 0301), accounting for 4.4% of the total federal civilian workforce of 1,953,300 for the June 2026 reporting window. Headcount in this occupation moved down by -5.1% versus the prior period, a workforce-scale shift government watchers track closely, since swings this large move federal staffing totals meaningfully.

Average tenure in Miscellaneous Administration and Program runs 15.6 years, a long average tenure, typical of career federal roles where employees stay through much of a full career before retirement. Pay averages $125,183 per year, down -0.0% from the prior period, a small shift, within the range of normal year-to-year rounding rather than a broad pay-table change.

Miscellaneous Administration and Program 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 Miscellaneous Administration and Program postings should also review these sibling occupations in the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family.

Inside the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group family (31 occupations, 260,640 employees combined), Miscellaneous Administration and Program holds the #1 spot by headcount, a 32.6% share of the family total.

Miscellaneous Administration and Program 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 (83rd 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, Miscellaneous Administration and Program's average salary of $125,183 sits at the 72nd 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 Miscellaneous Administration and Program's own 5.1% decrease. Average tenure across these 5 large occupation series runs 13.5 years; Miscellaneous Administration and Program's own 15.6-year average is longer than that peer-group average.