Federal employment
The Office of Personnel Management published 2,289,472 federal civilian employees across 52 states and territories as of March 1, 2025.
Where the work is
California employs more federal civilians than any other state, 182,276 of 2,289,472
By duty station, which is where the job is rather than where the employee lives. The District of Columbia is a state-level row here because OPM reports it as one.
Source: OPM
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The figures
| State | Employees |
|---|---|
| California | 182,276 |
| Texas | 171,064 |
| Virginia | 167,789 |
| Maryland | 149,707 |
| District of Columbia | 141,613 |
| Florida | 117,353 |
| Georgia | 90,219 |
| Pennsylvania | 74,194 |
| New York | 71,437 |
| Washington | 64,218 |
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The largest single employer is Veterans Health Administration with 420,521 people, and the largest occupational series is miscellaneous administration and program with 111,646. Full tables: by state, by agency, and by occupation.
What changed between the two published periods
Each FedScope release carries two periods, so this compares two figures OPM published rather than one of ours against a number we stored. Between September 1, 2024 and March 1, 2025, 4 states and territories grew and 48 shrank, for a net change of -23,744.
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| State | September 1, 2024 | March 1, 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 44,875 | 44,822 |
| Connecticut | 7,748 | 8,530 |
| Delaware | 4,354 | 4,345 |
| Florida | 117,052 | 117,353 |
| Georgia | 90,112 | 90,219 |
| Kentucky | 26,583 | 26,542 |
| Louisiana | 22,830 | 22,772 |
| North Dakota | 6,678 | 6,609 |
| South Carolina | 27,618 | 27,608 |
| Texas | 170,400 | 171,064 |
What this data cannot show
- OPM does not publish every federal employee. The intelligence community and some Department of Defense positions are excluded, so 2,289,472 is the workforce OPM publishes and not the federal workforce. An agency missing from these tables has not got no employees.
- Average salary is an average over a group. It is not any person’s pay, and this is not a named-salary file.
- Headcount counts employees rather than full-time equivalents, and it is a snapshot on the date of the release rather than an average over a period.
- Employees are counted at their duty station, which is where the job is rather than where the employee lives.
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Sources
- OPM FedScope Employment Summary Data — U.S. Office of Personnel Management · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 19, 2026
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