Procurement Clerical and Technician
Everything OPM FedScope (June 2026) reports about the Procurement Clerical and Technician occupation series (code 1106): headcount, average salary, length of service, and pay comparison.
The verdict
Procurement Clerical and Technician is a smaller, specialized federal occupation: 374 employees (0.0% of the federal civilian workforce) in the Business and Industry Group family. At an average salary of $63,114 it pays below the federal average, and headcount declined from the prior period.
- Headcount change
- -28.9%
- Pay change
- +0.2%
- Avg tenure
- 14.8 yrs
- Rank in family
- #17 of 25
What the Numbers Say About Procurement Clerical and Technician
On pay, the move between reporting periods was a small shift, within the range of normal year-to-year rounding rather than a broad pay-table change. On length of service, this series shows a mid-length average tenure, reflecting a mix of career employees and those who transfer or exit mid-career. Headcount moved down versus the prior period, though at this small a headcount, year-to-year swings can reflect a handful of hires or departures rather than a broad hiring trend.
Procurement Clerical and Technician sits inside the Business and Industry Group family (code 11), which contains 25 related occupations across the federal government. Candidates browsing USAJOBS for Procurement Clerical and Technician postings should also review these sibling occupations in the Business and Industry Group family. Procurement Clerical and Technician makes up 0.4% of the Business and Industry Group family's 83,993 combined employees.
Salary context · lean-pay series
How Procurement Clerical and Technician pay compares to the federal average
Occupation Average
$63,114
Federal Average
$117,339
vs. Federal Avg
-46.2%
Where Procurement Clerical and Technician ranks on lean federal pay
Procurement Clerical and Technician earns more on average than 18% of federal occupation series (96 of 541). The highlighted bar marks where Procurement Clerical and Technician sits in the federal pay distribution.
Average-salary distribution across all 541 federal occupation series; the highlighted bar marks Procurement Clerical and Technician.
Related Occupations in Business and Industry Group
10 other occupations in the same family
| Occupation | Employees | Avg Salary | Avg LOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contracting | 30,323 | $132,449 | 14.4 yrs |
| General Business and Industry | 25,675 | $123,489 | 14.9 yrs |
| Production Control | 5,015 | $99,508 | 14.6 yrs |
| Loan Specialist | 3,952 | $95,452 | 12.7 yrs |
| Realty | 3,282 | $112,506 | 15.3 yrs |
| Grants Management | 3,042 | $129,704 | 14.5 yrs |
| Purchasing | 2,225 | $59,039 | 13.1 yrs |
| Internal Revenue Officer | 2,183 | n/a | 14.7 yrs |
| Housing Management | 1,724 | $91,096 | 12.5 yrs |
| Commissary Management | 1,174 | n/a | 19.2 yrs |
Nationwide occupation series with similar scale or pay
Two peer sets for Procurement Clerical and Technician outside the Business and Industry Group family, on headcount and average salary axes that vary across all OPM occupation series.
Similar headcount
Nearest employee counts in other occupation families (374 here).
Similar lean average salary
Nearest average salaries in other occupation families ($63,114 here).
Key takeaways
- Place Procurement Clerical and Technician pay in context with the pay-rank chart above, then compare it with another occupation.
- Turn an average salary into a grade: the GS pay grade tables show how grades and steps map to pay.
- Browse the Business and Industry Group family occupations in the table above, or search current Procurement Clerical and Technician postings on USAJOBS.
OPM FedScope and Federal Workforce Data figures are federal civilian headcounts, average salaries, and length-of-service statistics - not job-quality scores, hiring advice, or a live vacancy listing. A larger or higher-paid agency is not a better employer.