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At the end of 2022, with 2.87 million federal employees, 1.9% of US workers were employed by the federal government. Since BLS began measuring the data in 1939, the proportion of all workers employed by the federal government has declined by 1 percentage point.
Federal Civilian Employment. by Major Geographic Area, State, and Selected Agency Executive Branch and Selected Other Agencies*, Non-Postal, Non-Seasonal, Full-time, Permanent Employees and All Annuitants. September 2017
The federal government employs more than 2 million civilians who live and work in every state and U.S. territory. This report provides a snapshot of recent statistics for U.S. government civilian employment in each state and territory, as well as estimates for how many civilian federal workers live in each congressional district.
Defense and national security-related agencies account for nearly 71% of the entire civilian federal workforce outside of the US Postal Service. The Department of Veterans Affairs comprised over 20% of the entire federal workforce and even grew by 9% in fiscal 2023, surpassing 400,000 employees.
The federal government employs about 2¼ million military personnel (of whom about 1 million are reservists) and about 2¼ million civilian personnel (of whom nearly 60 percent work for the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security).
According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the federal workforce is composed of an estimated 2.1 million civilian workers.1 Several federal agencies collect, compile, and publish statistics about this workforce. Sources may vary in their totals due to differences in the methods used to compile these statistics.
Data comes from agency 113-A monthy submissions and covers total end-of-year civilian employment of full-time permanent, temporary, part-time, and intermittent employees as of September 30th. 1 1940 - 1953 data represent estimates for employment in these activities.
Data available to OPM through its EHRI-SDM covers over 2 million Federal civilian employees and has information concerning occupations, agency of employment, salaries, promotions, awards, and many other transactions concerning Federal civilian employees.
In 2023, around 19.58 million people were working for state and local governments in the United States. This is much higher than the number of federal government (civilian) employees, which stood...
4.0 million federal employees, of whom 8% (excluding armed forces) work part-time; 5.5 million state employees, of whom 29% work part-time; and; 14.2 million local government employees, of whom 23% work part-time.