Employment and Trends - December 2011

TABLE 8 -- STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT

	ALL AREAS			UNITED STATES			WASHINGTON, DC-MD-VA-WV CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREA			OVERSEAS
EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES	DECEMBER 2011*	SEPTEMBER 2011*	DECEMBER 2010**	DECEMBER 2011*	SEPTEMBER 2011*	DECEMBER 2010**	DECEMBER 2011*	SEPTEMBER 2011*	DECEMBER 2010**	DECEMBER 2011*	SEPTEMBER 2011*	DECEMBER 2010**
TOTAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT	2,793,424	2,820,460	2,843,484	2,702,597	2,727,851	2,751,163	368,706	377,373	371,772	90,827	92,609	92,321
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,573,256	2,604,710	2,621,236	2,490,645	2,521,783	2,538,413	357,780	366,236	359,971	82,611	82,927	82,823
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	111,106	113,944	128,250	106,705	109,424	123,504	6,566	6,955	7,786	4,401	4,520	4,746
INTERMITTENT	109,062	101,806	93,998	105,247	96,644	89,246	4,360	4,182	4,015	3,815	5,162	4,752
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,608,496	2,626,068	2,658,420	2,525,608	2,542,798	2,576,634	335,553	340,978	335,580	82,855	83,270	81,786
FULL-TIME	2,488,276	2,503,870	2,529,404	2,409,416	2,425,158	2,451,744	329,845	334,909	328,812	78,860	78,712	77,660
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	120,220	122,198	129,016	116,192	117,640	124,890	5,708	6,069	6,768	3,995	4,558	4,126
TEMPORARY POSITION	184,928	194,392	185,064	176,989	185,053	174,529	33,153	36,395	36,192	7,972	9,339	10,535
FULL-TIME	84,980	100,840	91,832	81,229	96,625	86,669	27,935	31,327	31,159	3,751	4,215	5,163
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	99,948	93,552	93,232	95,760	88,428	87,860	5,218	5,068	5,033	4,221	5,124	5,372
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,548,165	2,564,927	2,591,134	2,483,111	2,498,968	2,525,908	333,698	337,622	324,287	65,054	65,959	65,226
FULL-TIME	2,446,403	2,462,452	2,476,161	2,383,174	2,399,096	2,413,660	328,634	332,681	318,906	63,229	63,356	62,501
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	92,736	92,917	104,756	91,304	91,566	103,286	4,628	4,612	5,064	1,432	1,351	1,470
INTERMITTENT	9,026	9,558	10,217	8,633	8,306	8,962	436	329	317	393	1,252	1,255
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	245,259	255,533	252,350	219,486	228,883	225,255	35,008	39,751	47,485	25,773	26,650	27,095
FULL-TIME	126,853	142,258	145,075	107,471	122,687	124,753	29,146	33,555	41,065	19,382	19,571	20,322
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	18,370	21,027	23,494	15,401	17,858	20,218	1,938	2,343	2,722	2,969	3,169	3,276
INTERMITTENT	100,036	92,248	83,781	96,614	88,338	80,284	3,924	3,853	3,698	3,422	3,910	3,497
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,489,921	1,510,748	1,468,861	1,460,768	1,481,659	1,440,356	241,320	234,745	235,184	29,153	29,089	28,505
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,454,749	1,465,523	1,428,101	1,427,117	1,437,963	1,401,188	236,943	230,377	230,404	27,632	27,560	26,913
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	35,172	45,225	40,760	33,651	43,696	39,168	4,377	4,368	4,780	1,521	1,529	1,592
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,303,503	1,309,712	1,374,623	1,241,829	1,246,192	1,310,807	127,386	142,628	136,588	61,674	63,520	63,816
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,093,416	1,099,404	1,163,033	1,055,994	1,061,005	1,124,720	96,755	107,245	93,883	37,422	38,399	38,313
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	210,087	210,308	211,590	185,835	185,187	186,087	30,631	35,383	42,705	24,252	25,121	25,503
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	214,716	213,693	211,532	203,488	208,390	205,679	11,615	15,401	10,680	11,228	5,303	5,853
POSTAL	612,759	609,921	643,420	609,880	607,066	640,377	12,449	12,299	12,985	2,879	2,855	3,043
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,965,949	1,996,846	1,988,532	1,889,229	1,912,395	1,905,107	344,642	349,673	348,107	76,720	84,451	83,425
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,758,726	2,785,624	2,809,034	2,694,919	2,719,922	2,743,291	366,345	373,634	368,187	63,807	65,702	65,743
NON U.S. CITIZEN	34,698	34,836	34,450	7,678	7,929	7,872	2,361	3,739	3,585	27,020	26,907	26,578
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		31,218	29,871	36,510	30,873	28,743	32,760	11,981	4,961	5,493	345	1,128
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	30,357	30,465	30,620	30,351	30,459	30,614	29,238	29,346	29,502	6	6	6
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	29,994	30,094	30,247	29,988	30,088	30,241	28,922	29,023	29,176	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	283	285	288	283	285	288	239	241	244	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	80	86	85	80	86	85	77	82	82	...	...	...
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	11,716	11,719	11,744	11,710	11,713	11,738	10,618	10,620	10,646	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	11,442	11,440	11,465	11,436	11,434	11,459	10,391	10,389	10,414	6	6	6
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	274	279	279	274	279	279	227	231	232	...	...	...
TEMPORARY POSITION	18,641	18,746	18,876	18,641	18,746	18,876	18,620	18,726	18,856	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	18,552	18,654	18,782	18,552	18,654	18,782	18,531	18,634	18,762	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	89	92	94	89	92	94	89	92	94	...	...	...
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	18,770	18,776	11,708	18,764	18,770	11,702	17,666	17,672	10,604	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	18,513	18,527	11,462	18,507	18,521	11,456	17,451	17,465	10,400	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	246	246	244	246	246	244	204	204	202	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	11	3	2	11	3	2	11	3	2	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	11,587	11,689	18,912	11,587	11,689	18,912	11,572	11,674	18,898	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	11,481	11,567	18,785	11,481	11,567	18,785	11,471	11,558	18,776	...	...	...
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	37	39	44	37	39	44	35	37	42	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	69	83	83	69	83	83	66	79	80	...	...	...
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	2,320	2,320	2,430	2,320	2,320	2,430	2,131	2,131	2,240	...	...	...
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	2,315	2,314	2,423	2,315	2,314	2,423	2,126	2,125	2,233	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	5	6	7	5	6	7	5	6	7	...	...	...
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	28,037	28,145	28,190	28,031	28,139	28,184	27,107	27,215	27,262	6	6	6
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	16,455	16,462	9,285	16,449	16,456	9,279	15,540	15,547	8,371	6	6	6
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	11,582	11,683	18,905	11,582	11,683	18,905	11,567	11,668	18,891	...	...	...
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	2,823	2,938	2,938	2,823	2,938	2,938	2,777	2,892	2,892	...	...	...
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	27,534	27,527	27,682	27,528	27,521	27,676	26,461	26,454	26,610	6	6	6
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	30,300	30,406	30,561	30,294	30,400	30,555	29,181	29,287	29,443	6	6	6
NON U.S. CITIZEN	57	59	59	57	59	59	57	59	59	...	...	...
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		115	106	106	115	106	106	114	105	105	...	...
JUDICIAL BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	33,762	33,762	33,762	33,393	33,393	33,393	2,823	2,823	2,823	369	369	369
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	32,254	32,254	32,252	31,906	31,906	31,904	2,680	2,680	2,678	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,411	1,411	1,413	1,393	1,393	1,395	135	135	137	18	18	18
INTERMITTENT	97	97	97	94	94	94	8	8	8	3	3	3
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	33,447	33,447	33,437	33,089	33,089	33,079	2,756	2,756	2,746	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,227	32,227	32,215	31,879	31,879	31,867	2,653	2,653	2,641	348	348	348
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	1,220	1,220	1,222	1,210	1,210	1,212	103	103	105	10	10	10
TEMPORARY POSITION	315	315	325	304	304	314	67	67	77	11	11	11
FULL-TIME	27	27	37	27	27	37	27	27	37	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	288	288	288	277	277	277	40	40	40	11	11	11
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	33,468	33,468	33,468	33,110	33,110	33,110	2,777	2,777	2,777	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,247	32,247	32,245	31,899	31,899	31,897	2,673	2,673	2,671	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,221	1,221	1,223	1,211	1,211	1,213	104	104	106	10	10	10
INTERMITTENT	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	294	294	294	283	283	283	46	46	46	11	11	11
FULL-TIME	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	...	...	...
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	190	190	190	182	182	182	31	31	31	8	8	8
INTERMITTENT	97	97	97	94	94	94	8	8	8	3	3	3
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	33,762	33,762	33,762	33,393	33,393	33,393	2,823	2,823	2,823	369	369	369
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	33,468	33,468	33,468	33,110	33,110	33,110	2,777	2,777	2,777	358	358	358
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	294	294	294	283	283	283	46	46	46	11	11	11
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	33,762	33,762	33,762	33,393	33,393	33,393	2,823	2,823	2,823	369	369	369
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	33,217	33,217	33,217	32,854	32,854	32,854	2,628	2,628	2,628	363	363	363
NON U.S. CITIZEN	545	545	545	539	539	539	195	195	195	6	6	6
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
EXECUTIVE BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	2,729,305	2,756,233	2,779,102	2,638,853	2,663,999	2,687,156	336,645	345,204	339,447	90,452	92,234	91,946
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,511,008	2,542,362	2,558,737	2,428,751	2,459,789	2,476,268	326,178	334,533	328,117	82,257	82,573	82,469
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	109,412	112,248	126,549	105,029	107,746	121,821	6,192	6,579	7,405	4,383	4,502	4,728
INTERMITTENT	108,885	101,623	93,816	105,073	96,464	89,067	4,275	4,092	3,925	3,812	5,159	4,749
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,563,333	2,580,902	2,613,239	2,480,809	2,497,996	2,531,817	322,179	327,602	322,188	82,491	82,906	81,422
FULL-TIME	2,444,607	2,460,203	2,485,724	2,366,101	2,381,845	2,408,418	316,801	321,867	315,757	78,506	78,358	77,306
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	118,726	120,699	127,515	114,708	116,151	123,399	5,378	5,735	6,431	3,985	4,548	4,116
TEMPORARY POSITION	165,972	175,331	165,863	158,044	166,003	155,339	14,466	17,602	17,259	7,961	9,328	10,524
FULL-TIME	66,401	82,159	73,013	62,650	77,944	67,850	9,377	12,666	12,360	3,751	4,215	5,163
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	99,571	93,172	92,850	95,394	88,059	87,489	5,089	4,936	4,899	4,210	5,113	5,361
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,495,927	2,512,683	2,545,958	2,431,237	2,447,088	2,481,096	313,255	317,173	310,906	64,690	65,595	64,862
FULL-TIME	2,395,643	2,411,678	2,432,454	2,332,768	2,348,676	2,370,307	308,510	312,543	305,835	62,875	63,002	62,147
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	91,269	91,450	103,289	89,847	90,109	101,829	4,320	4,304	4,756	1,422	1,341	1,460
INTERMITTENT	9,015	9,555	10,215	8,622	8,303	8,960	425	326	315	393	1,252	1,255
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	233,378	243,550	233,144	207,616	216,911	206,060	23,390	28,031	28,541	25,762	26,639	27,084
FULL-TIME	115,365	130,684	126,283	95,983	111,113	105,961	17,668	21,990	22,282	19,382	19,571	20,322
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	18,143	20,798	23,260	15,182	17,637	19,992	1,872	2,275	2,649	2,961	3,161	3,268
INTERMITTENT	99,870	92,068	83,601	96,451	88,161	80,107	3,850	3,766	3,610	3,419	3,907	3,494
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,487,601	1,508,428	1,466,431	1,458,448	1,479,339	1,437,926	239,189	232,614	232,944	29,153	29,089	28,505
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,452,434	1,463,209	1,425,678	1,424,802	1,435,649	1,398,765	234,817	228,252	228,171	27,632	27,560	26,913
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	35,167	45,219	40,753	33,646	43,690	39,161	4,372	4,362	4,773	1,521	1,529	1,592
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,241,704	1,247,805	1,312,671	1,180,405	1,184,660	1,249,230	97,456	112,590	106,503	61,299	63,145	63,441
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,043,493	1,049,474	1,120,280	1,006,435	1,011,439	1,082,331	78,438	88,921	82,735	37,058	38,035	37,949
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	198,211	198,331	192,391	173,970	173,221	166,899	19,018	23,669	23,768	24,241	25,110	25,492
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	211,893	210,755	208,594	200,665	205,452	202,741	8,838	12,509	7,788	11,228	5,303	5,853
POSTAL	612,759	609,921	643,420	609,880	607,066	640,377	12,449	12,299	12,985	2,879	2,855	3,043
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,904,653	1,935,557	1,927,088	1,828,308	1,851,481	1,844,038	315,358	320,396	318,674	76,345	84,076	83,050
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,695,209	2,722,001	2,745,256	2,631,771	2,656,668	2,679,882	334,536	341,719	336,116	63,438	65,333	65,374
NON U.S. CITIZEN	34,096	34,232	33,846	7,082	7,331	7,274	2,109	3,485	3,331	27,014	26,901	26,572
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		31,103	29,765	36,404	30,758	28,637	32,654	11,867	4,856	5,388	345	1,128

* PRELIMINARY OR PREVIOUS QUARTER'S EMPLOYMENT TOTALS (OR PORTIONS THEREOF) WERE USED FOR CURRENT QUARTER.
** REVISED.
*** NOT INCLUDED IN TOTAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT.