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Table 8

Employment and Trends - June 2012

TABLE 8 -- STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF FEDERAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT
	ALL AREAS			UNITED STATES			WASHINGTON, DC-MD-VA-WV CORE BASED STATISTICAL AREA			OVERSEAS

EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES	JUNE 2012*	MARCH 2012*	JUNE 2011**	JUNE 2012*	MARCH 2012*	JUNE 2011**	JUNE 2012*	MARCH 2012*	JUNE 2011**	JUNE 2012*	MARCH 2012*	JUNE 2011**
TOTAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT	2,800,715	2,786,118	2,869,548	2,714,715	2,694,418	2,776,111	362,464	360,816	370,960	86,000	91,700	93,437
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,586,299	2,568,531	2,647,067	2,508,752	2,486,300	2,563,026	351,914	349,932	359,928	77,547	82,231	84,041
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	105,656	110,615	123,843	102,475	106,118	119,113	6,449	6,995	7,104	3,181	4,497	4,730
INTERMITTENT	108,760	106,972	98,638	103,488	102,000	93,972	4,101	3,889	3,928	5,272	4,972	4,666
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,585,412	2,596,736	2,656,915	2,509,065	2,514,494	2,573,165	326,292	326,498	334,360	76,347	82,242	83,750
FULL-TIME	2,472,540	2,479,800	2,526,158	2,398,817	2,401,464	2,446,736	320,839	320,503	328,133	73,723	78,336	79,422
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	112,872	116,936	130,757	110,248	113,030	126,429	5,453	5,995	6,227	2,624	3,906	4,328
TEMPORARY POSITION	215,303	189,382	212,633	205,650	179,924	202,946	36,172	34,318	36,600	9,653	9,458	9,687
FULL-TIME	113,759	88,731	120,909	109,935	84,836	116,290	31,075	29,429	31,795	3,824	3,895	4,619
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	101,544	100,651	91,724	95,715	95,088	86,656	5,097	4,889	4,805	5,829	5,563	5,068
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,535,282	2,546,616	2,596,994	2,475,022	2,481,621	2,531,322	323,095	323,689	329,759	60,260	64,995	65,672
FULL-TIME	2,437,261	2,446,428	2,484,705	2,378,839	2,383,291	2,421,647	318,152	318,569	324,607	58,422	63,137	63,058
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	89,523	92,012	102,678	88,117	90,536	101,294	4,586	4,731	4,824	1,406	1,476	1,384
INTERMITTENT	8,498	8,176	9,611	8,066	7,794	8,381	357	389	328	432	382	1,230
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	265,433	239,502	272,554	239,693	212,797	244,789	39,369	37,127	41,201	25,740	26,705	27,765
FULL-TIME	149,038	122,103	162,362	129,913	103,009	141,379	33,762	31,363	35,321	19,125	19,094	20,983
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	16,133	18,603	21,165	14,358	15,582	17,819	1,863	2,264	2,280	1,775	3,021	3,346
INTERMITTENT	100,262	98,796	89,027	95,422	94,206	85,591	3,744	3,500	3,600	4,840	4,590	3,436
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,513,780	1,505,028	1,532,878	1,484,768	1,475,698	1,503,891	242,351	243,279	238,936	29,012	29,330	28,987
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,457,309	1,460,751	1,480,248	1,429,708	1,432,972	1,452,779	228,134	228,996	234,309	27,601	27,779	27,469
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	56,471	44,277	52,630	55,060	42,726	51,112	14,217	14,283	4,627	1,411	1,551	1,518
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,286,935	1,281,090	1,336,670	1,229,947	1,218,720	1,272,220	120,113	117,537	132,024	56,988	62,370	64,450
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,077,973	1,085,865	1,116,746	1,045,314	1,048,649	1,078,543	94,961	94,693	95,450	32,659	37,216	38,203
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	208,962	195,225	219,924	184,633	170,071	193,677	25,152	22,844	36,574	24,329	25,154	26,247
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	211,193	208,381	216,364	205,866	202,997	210,888	10,501	15,177	11,164	5,327	5,384	5,476
POSTAL	599,639	602,868	623,378	596,856	600,094	620,465	12,440	12,389	12,312	2,783	2,774	2,913
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,989,883	1,974,869	2,029,806	1,911,993	1,891,327	1,944,758	339,523	333,250	347,484	77,890	83,542	85,048
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,766,463	2,751,609	2,834,959	2,707,067	2,686,755	2,768,279	358,898	357,186	367,344	59,396	64,854	66,680
NON U.S. CITIZEN	34,252	34,509	34,589	7,648	7,663	7,832	3,566	3,630	3,616	26,604	26,846	26,757
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		37,676	34,990	33,849	33,290	33,163	30,242	6,213	4,854	5,411	4,386	1,827
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	30,123	30,142	30,478	30,117	30,136	30,472	29,005	29,024	29,359	6	6	6
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	29,758	29,770	30,108	29,752	29,764	30,102	28,687	28,699	29,036	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	281	286	283	281	286	283	237	242	239	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	84	86	87	84	86	87	81	83	84	...	...	...
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	11,733	11,728	11,733	11,727	11,722	11,727	10,635	10,630	10,635	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	11,457	11,445	11,455	11,451	11,439	11,449	10,406	10,394	10,404	6	6	6
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	276	283	278	276	283	278	229	236	231	...	...	...
TEMPORARY POSITION	18,390	18,414	18,745	18,390	18,414	18,745	18,370	18,394	18,724	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	18,301	18,325	18,653	18,301	18,325	18,653	18,281	18,305	18,632	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	89	89	92	89	89	92	89	89	92	...	...	...
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	18,786	18,776	18,731	18,780	18,770	18,725	17,682	17,672	17,627	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	18,530	18,519	18,485	18,524	18,513	18,479	17,468	17,457	17,423	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	245	247	244	245	247	244	203	205	202	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	11	10	2	11	10	2	11	10	2	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	11,337	11,366	11,747	11,337	11,366	11,747	11,323	11,352	11,732	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	11,228	11,251	11,623	11,228	11,251	11,623	11,219	11,242	11,613	...	...	...
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	36	39	39	36	39	39	34	37	37	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	73	76	85	73	76	85	70	73	82	...	...	...
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	12,243	12,273	2,420	12,243	12,273	2,420	12,054	12,084	2,230	...	...	...
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	2,315	2,315	2,414	2,315	2,315	2,414	2,126	2,126	2,224	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	9,928	9,958	6	9,928	9,958	6	9,928	9,958	6	...	...	...
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	17,880	17,869	28,058	17,874	17,863	28,052	16,951	16,940	27,129	6	6	6
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	16,471	16,461	16,317	16,465	16,455	16,311	15,556	15,546	15,403	6	6	6
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	1,409	1,408	11,741	1,409	1,408	11,741	1,395	1,394	11,726	...	...	...
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	2,823	2,823	2,938	2,823	2,823	2,938	2,777	2,777	2,892	...	...	...
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	27,300	27,319	27,540	27,294	27,313	27,534	26,228	26,247	26,467	6	6	6
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	30,066	30,085	30,419	30,060	30,079	30,413	28,948	28,967	29,300	6	6	6
NON U.S. CITIZEN	57	57	59	57	57	59	57	57	59	...	...	...
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		116	115	109	116	115	109	115	114	108	...	...
JUDICIAL BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	33,771	33,766	33,769	33,402	33,397	33,400	2,832	2,827	2,830	369	369	369
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	32,266	32,260	32,260	31,918	31,912	31,912	2,692	2,686	2,686	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,408	1,409	1,412	1,390	1,391	1,394	132	133	136	18	18	18
INTERMITTENT	97	97	97	94	94	94	8	8	8	3	3	3
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	33,452	33,449	33,452	33,094	33,091	33,094	2,761	2,758	2,761	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,234	32,230	32,231	31,886	31,882	31,883	2,660	2,656	2,657	348	348	348
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	1,218	1,219	1,221	1,208	1,209	1,211	101	102	104	10	10	10
TEMPORARY POSITION	319	317	317	308	306	306	71	69	69	11	11	11
FULL-TIME	32	30	29	32	30	29	32	30	29	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	287	287	288	276	276	277	39	39	40	11	11	11
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	33,478	33,473	33,475	33,120	33,115	33,117	2,787	2,782	2,784	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,260	32,254	32,253	31,912	31,906	31,905	2,686	2,680	2,679	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,218	1,219	1,222	1,208	1,209	1,212	101	102	105	10	10	10
INTERMITTENT	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	293	293	294	282	282	283	45	45	46	11	11	11
FULL-TIME	6	6	7	6	6	7	6	6	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	33,771	33,766	33,769	33,402	33,397	33,400	2,832	2,827	2,830	369	369	369
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	33,478	33,473	33,475	33,120	33,115	33,117	2,787	2,782	2,784	358	358	358
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	293	293	294	282	282	283	45	45	46	11	11	11
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	33,771	33,766	33,769	33,402	33,397	33,400	2,832	2,827	2,830	369	369	369
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	33,226	33,221	33,224	32,863	32,858	32,861	2,637	2,632	2,635	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	2,736,821	2,722,210	2,805,301	2,651,196	2,630,885	2,712,239	330,627	328,965	338,771	85,625	91,325	93,062
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,524,275	2,506,501	2,584,699	2,447,082	2,424,624	2,501,012	320,535	318,547	328,206	77,193	81,877	83,687
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	103,967	108,920	122,148	100,804	104,441	117,436	6,080	6,620	6,729	3,163	4,479	4,712
INTERMITTENT	108,579	106,789	98,454	103,310	101,820	93,791	4,012	3,798	3,836	5,269	4,969	4,663
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,540,227	2,551,559	2,611,730	2,464,244	2,469,681	2,528,344	312,896	313,110	320,964	75,983	81,878	83,386
FULL-TIME	2,428,849	2,436,125	2,482,472	2,355,480	2,358,143	2,403,404	307,773	307,453	315,072	73,369	77,982	79,068
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	111,378	115,434	129,258	108,764	111,538	124,940	5,123	5,657	5,892	2,614	3,896	4,318
TEMPORARY POSITION	196,594	170,651	193,571	186,952	161,204	183,895	17,731	15,855	17,807	9,642	9,447	9,676
FULL-TIME	95,426	70,376	102,227	91,602	66,481	97,608	12,762	11,094	13,134	3,824	3,895	4,619
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	101,168	100,275	91,344	95,350	94,723	86,287	4,969	4,761	4,673	5,818	5,552	5,057
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,483,018	2,494,367	2,544,788	2,423,122	2,429,736	2,479,480	302,626	303,235	309,348	59,896	64,631	65,308
FULL-TIME	2,386,471	2,395,655	2,433,967	2,328,403	2,332,872	2,371,263	297,998	298,432	304,505	58,068	62,783	62,704
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	88,060	90,546	101,212	86,664	89,080	99,838	4,282	4,424	4,517	1,396	1,466	1,374
INTERMITTENT	8,487	8,166	9,609	8,055	7,784	8,379	346	379	326	432	382	1,230
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	253,803	227,843	260,513	228,074	201,149	232,759	28,001	25,730	29,423	25,729	26,694	27,754
FULL-TIME	137,804	110,846	150,732	118,679	91,752	129,749	22,537	20,115	23,701	19,125	19,094	20,983
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	15,907	18,374	20,936	14,140	15,361	17,598	1,798	2,196	2,212	1,767	3,013	3,338
INTERMITTENT	100,092	98,623	88,845	95,255	94,036	85,412	3,666	3,419	3,510	4,837	4,587	3,433
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,501,537	1,492,755	1,530,458	1,472,525	1,463,425	1,501,471	230,297	231,195	236,706	29,012	29,330	28,987
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,454,994	1,458,436	1,477,834	1,427,393	1,430,657	1,450,365	226,008	226,870	232,085	27,601	27,779	27,469
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	46,543	34,319	52,624	45,132	32,768	51,106	4,289	4,325	4,621	1,411	1,551	1,518
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,235,284	1,229,455	1,274,843	1,178,671	1,167,460	1,210,768	100,330	97,770	102,065	56,613	61,995	64,075
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,028,024	1,035,931	1,066,954	995,729	999,079	1,029,115	76,618	76,365	77,263	32,295	36,852	37,839
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	207,260	193,524	207,889	182,942	168,381	181,653	23,712	21,405	24,802	24,318	25,143	26,236
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	208,370	205,558	213,426	203,043	200,174	207,950	7,724	12,400	8,272	5,327	5,384	5,476
POSTAL	599,639	602,868	623,378	596,856	600,094	620,465	12,440	12,389	12,312	2,783	2,774	2,913
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,928,812	1,913,784	1,968,497	1,851,297	1,830,617	1,883,824	310,463	304,176	318,187	77,515	83,167	84,673
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,703,171	2,688,303	2,771,316	2,644,144	2,623,818	2,705,005	327,313	325,587	335,409	59,027	64,485	66,311
NON U.S. CITIZEN	33,650	33,907	33,985	7,052	7,067	7,234	3,314	3,378	3,362	26,598	26,840	26,751
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		37,560	34,875	33,740	33,174	33,048	30,133	6,098	4,740	5,303	4,386	1,827

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

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Employment and Trends - June 2012