Characteristics and Pay of Federal Civilian Employees
Characteristics and Pay of Federal Civilian Employees

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 34

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Today, more than 100 federal agencies employ about 2.7 million civilian workers or roughly 2 percent of the total U.S. workforce in jobs representing more than 800 occupations. Those occupations generally require workers who have a broad complement of training, skills, and experience, and the federal government competes with other employers for individuals who possess the right mix of attributes. To better understand the characteristics of federal workers, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examined the attributes of a subset of the government's civilian workforce: the roughly 1.4 million salaried workers not including employees of the Postal Service who fill full-time permanent positions in the executive branch. Basically the government's whitecollar employees, that group represented slightly more than one-half of all civilian workers in December 2005. (In this report, the terms federal employees and civil servants refer only to the employees in that group.) The analysis builds on CBO's previous work on federal employment and pay.

Federal Workforce
Federal Workforce

Author: U.s. Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781973962373

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" Skilled federal workers are critical to the successful operation of government. At the same time, personnel costs for current and former federal civilian employees represented about 26 percent of total discretionary spending in 2012; these personnel costs are outlays from budget authority authorized by appropriations acts. Given the need to control agencies' personnel costs while also maintaining agencies' high performance, a thorough understanding of employment and compensation trends is a critical component of strategic workforce planning. GAO was asked to provide data on federal employment and compensation trends. This report examines (1) employment trends of federal civilian personnel from 2004 to 2012 and some factors that affect these trends, and (2) the extent to which federal civilian employee compensation has changed (as a percentage of total discretionary spending) and some reasons for this change. For this report, GAO analyzed government-wide executive branch civilian personnel data from 2004 to 2012. GAO also interviewed Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and other selected agency officials. GAO also reviewed relevant literature, such as studies on attrition. GAO is not making any recommendations in this report."