How many people work for the federal government?
The Office of Personnel Management published 2,289,472 federal civilian employees as of 2025-03-01. The largest occupational series is Miscellaneous Administration and Program, with 111,646 of them.
Answer current as of
Where this comes from
The figure is the result of a checked-in query, states_by_federal_employment.sql, run against the published data. Every number on this page can be traced to it.