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Reference · OPM FedScope June 2026

Federal Workforce Statistics

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The U.S. federal civilian workforce numbers 1,953,300 employees across 126 agencies and 663 occupation series in the Office of Personnel Management FedScope employment stock (June 2026). This page is the citable registry of those headline figures, with a 51-jurisdiction CSV.

Key findings

  • The U.S. federal civilian workforce is 1,953,300 employees across 126 agencies and 663 occupation series (OPM FedScope employment stock, June 2026).
  • Department of Veterans Affairs is the largest agency by civilian headcount, with 445,351 employees (22.8% of the national stock).
  • Among agencies with at least 5,000 employees and a disclosed average salary, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has the highest average ($185,614). DoD components with redacted pay are excluded.
  • Among the 50 states and DC, Alabama has the largest duty-station workforce (15,145), ahead of Alaska (5,778).
  • 898,675 employees have a redacted duty station in this cube, so the 51-jurisdiction table does not sum to the national stock.
  • The most-staffed occupation series is Nurse, with 106,218 employees.
  • The highest-paid occupation series with at least 5,000 employees is Medical Officer ($301,569, 34,687 employees).
  • The June 2026 stock is 72,693 civilians below May 2026 (-3.59%).

Headline totals

Federal employees
1,953,300
Agencies
126
Occupation series
663
States and DC
51

Largest agencies by workforce

1. Department of Veterans Af…445,3512. Department of Homeland Se…225,5683. Department of the Navy201,0614. Department of the Army187,7855. Department of the Air For…151,2856. Department of Justice107,0827. Department of Treasury83,8128. Department of Agriculture78,0759. Department of Health and …72,91910. Department of Defense70,493
The 10 largest federal agencies by civilian employees (OPM FedScope, June 2026)

Highest disclosed agency pay

1. Federal Deposit Insurance…$185,6142. National Aeronautics and …$153,0143. Department of Energy$149,9254. Department of Housing and…$145,3725. Department of Transportat…$143,6246. Environmental Protection …$139,4717. Department of State$137,8968. Department of Health and …$137,7929. General Services Administ…$135,21510. Department of Commerce$129,985
Agencies with at least 5,000 employees and a disclosed average salary (OPM FedScope, June 2026). DoD components with redacted pay are omitted.

Largest and highest-paid occupations

1. Nurse106,2182. Miscellaneous Administrat…84,9903. Information Technology Ma…76,7904. Management and Program An…73,3375. Compliance Inspection and…53,4446. Criminal Investigation44,6337. General Inspection, Inves…44,4918. Medical Support Assistance39,856
Most-staffed federal occupation series
1. Medical Officer$301,5692. Program Management$178,5733. General Attorney$177,9214. Pharmacist$167,3905. General Engineering$158,9416. Computer Science$158,8797. Patent Examining$157,9638. Aerospace Engineering$155,848
Highest-paid occupation series (at least 5,000 employees)

Employment by state and DC

1. District of Columbia96,5522. California78,4843. Florida55,3424. Colorado24,3855. Arizona23,4796. Alabama15,1457. Arkansas9,5918. Alaska5,7789. Connecticut5,00310. Delaware2,221
The 10 largest duty-station workforces among the 50 states and DC (OPM FedScope, June 2026). Redacted locations are not in this chart.

Download the 51-row table as CSV (https://plaingovjobs.com/data/federal-workforce-by-state.csv).

Average pay by GS grade

GS-01$35,167GS-02$37,918GS-03$39,115GS-04$43,538GS-05$50,671GS-06$60,211GS-07$63,000GS-08$69,205GS-09$75,809GS-10$84,697GS-11$92,314GS-12$114,049GS-13$139,196GS-14$166,090GS-15$190,429
Average salary by General Schedule (GS) grade (OPM FedScope, June 2026)

Workforce flow, hiring vs departures

Flow counts come from Federal Workforce Dynamics (2024-06/2026-06), a different population from the June 2026 employment stock above. Do not divide one by the other.

Monthly accessions vs separations

Federal civilian workforce inflow and outflow by month

05,00010,00015,00020,000 Jun 2024Oct 2024Feb 2025Jun 2025Oct 2025Feb 2026Jun 2026 15,98413,568 SeparationsAccessions

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Data currency: Employment stock from OPM Federal Workforce Data June 2026 (prior-period deltas vs May 2026); monthly hiring/separations from FWD Dynamics June 2024–June 2026 (filled civilian headcount and flows, not live USAJOBS vacancy listings). State pages sum only duty stations with a disclosed US state/DC code; 898,675 employees have redacted geography in the release and appear in the national total only. Database compiled 2026-08-11. See our methodology § populations for the three windows. Spot a figure that looks wrong? Report a correction.

PlainGovJobs is rendered directly from OPM FedScope Employment Cubes and Federal Workforce Data (FWD), no number is typed in by an editor. Headline counts, agency and occupation ranks, and the state CSV on this page are computed live from the employment-stock tables. The hiring-flow chart uses the separate dynamics cubes. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error on this page. Data current as of June 2026. 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.