Employment and Trends - September 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	SEPTEMBER 2012*	JUNE 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2011**	SEPTEMBER 2012*	JUNE 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2011**	SEPTEMBER 2012*	JUNE 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2011**	SEPTEMBER 2012*	JUNE 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2011**
TOTAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT	2,760,569	2,800,715	2,820,460	2,675,491	2,714,715	2,727,851	359,271	362,464	377,373	85,078	86,000	92,609
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,545,516	2,586,299	2,604,710	2,468,872	2,508,752	2,521,783	348,631	351,914	366,236	76,644	77,547	82,927
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	103,557	105,656	113,944	100,461	102,475	109,424	6,567	6,449	6,955	3,096	3,181	4,520
INTERMITTENT	111,496	108,760	101,806	106,158	103,488	96,644	4,073	4,101	4,182	5,338	5,272	5,162
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,550,173	2,585,412	2,626,068	2,474,964	2,509,065	2,542,798	324,158	326,292	340,978	75,209	76,347	83,270
FULL-TIME	2,441,295	2,472,540	2,503,870	2,368,558	2,398,817	2,425,158	318,742	320,839	334,909	72,737	73,723	78,712
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	108,878	112,872	122,198	106,406	110,248	117,640	5,416	5,453	6,069	2,472	2,624	4,558
TEMPORARY POSITION	210,396	215,303	194,392	200,527	205,650	185,053	35,113	36,172	36,395	9,869	9,653	9,339
FULL-TIME	104,221	113,759	100,840	100,314	109,935	96,625	29,889	31,075	31,327	3,907	3,824	4,215
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	106,175	101,544	93,552	100,213	95,715	88,428	5,224	5,097	5,068	5,962	5,829	5,124
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,507,284	2,535,282	2,564,927	2,447,037	2,475,022	2,498,968	321,874	323,095	337,622	60,247	60,260	65,959
FULL-TIME	2,411,515	2,437,261	2,462,452	2,353,114	2,378,839	2,399,096	316,996	318,152	332,681	58,401	58,422	63,356
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	87,471	89,523	92,917	86,083	88,117	91,566	4,576	4,586	4,612	1,388	1,406	1,351
INTERMITTENT	8,298	8,498	9,558	7,840	8,066	8,306	302	357	329	458	432	1,252
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	253,285	265,433	255,533	228,454	239,693	228,883	37,397	39,369	39,751	24,831	25,740	26,650
FULL-TIME	134,001	149,038	142,258	115,758	129,913	122,687	31,635	33,762	33,555	18,243	19,125	19,571
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	16,086	16,133	21,027	14,378	14,358	17,858	1,991	1,863	2,343	1,708	1,775	3,169
INTERMITTENT	103,198	100,262	92,248	98,318	95,422	88,338	3,771	3,744	3,853	4,880	4,840	3,910
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,478,255	1,513,780	1,510,748	1,449,598	1,484,768	1,481,659	241,192	242,351	234,745	28,657	29,012	29,089
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,426,314	1,457,309	1,465,523	1,399,031	1,429,708	1,437,963	227,211	228,134	230,377	27,283	27,601	27,560
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	51,941	56,471	45,225	50,567	55,060	43,696	13,981	14,217	4,368	1,374	1,411	1,529
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,282,314	1,286,935	1,309,712	1,225,893	1,229,947	1,246,192	118,079	120,113	142,628	56,421	56,988	63,520
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,080,970	1,077,973	1,099,404	1,048,006	1,045,314	1,061,005	94,663	94,961	107,245	32,964	32,659	38,399
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	201,344	208,962	210,308	177,887	184,633	185,187	23,416	25,152	35,383	23,457	24,329	25,121
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	203,800	211,193	213,693	198,550	205,866	208,390	10,363	10,501	15,401	5,250	5,327	5,303
POSTAL	592,750	599,639	609,921	589,983	596,856	607,066	12,385	12,440	12,299	2,767	2,783	2,855
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,964,019	1,989,883	1,996,846	1,886,958	1,911,993	1,912,395	336,523	339,523	349,673	77,061	77,890	84,451
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,726,729	2,766,463	2,785,624	2,668,194	2,707,067	2,719,922	355,785	358,898	373,634	58,535	59,396	65,702
NON U.S. CITIZEN	33,840	34,252	34,836	7,297	7,648	7,929	3,486	3,566	3,739	26,543	26,604	26,907
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		32,801	37,676	29,871	28,357	33,290	28,743	5,421	6,213	4,961	4,444	4,386
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	29,837	30,123	30,465	29,831	30,117	30,459	28,719	29,005	29,346	6	6	6
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	29,472	29,758	30,094	29,466	29,752	30,088	28,401	28,687	29,023	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	283	281	285	283	281	285	239	237	241	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	82	84	86	82	84	86	79	81	82	...	...	...
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	11,729	11,733	11,719	11,723	11,727	11,713	10,631	10,635	10,620	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	11,453	11,457	11,440	11,447	11,451	11,434	10,402	10,406	10,389	6	6	6
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	276	276	279	276	276	279	229	229	231	...	...	...
TEMPORARY POSITION	18,108	18,390	18,746	18,108	18,390	18,746	18,088	18,370	18,726	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	18,019	18,301	18,654	18,019	18,301	18,654	17,999	18,281	18,634	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	89	89	92	89	89	92	89	89	92	...	...	...
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	18,783	18,786	18,776	18,777	18,780	18,770	17,679	17,682	17,672	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	18,528	18,530	18,527	18,522	18,524	18,521	17,466	17,468	17,465	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	244	245	246	244	245	246	202	203	204	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	11	11	3	11	11	3	11	11	3	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	11,054	11,337	11,689	11,054	11,337	11,689	11,040	11,323	11,674	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	10,944	11,228	11,567	10,944	11,228	11,567	10,935	11,219	11,558	...	...	...
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	39	36	39	39	36	39	37	34	37	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	71	73	83	71	73	83	68	70	79	...	...	...
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	11,969	12,243	2,320	11,969	12,243	2,320	11,780	12,054	2,131	...	...	...
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	2,315	2,315	2,314	2,315	2,315	2,314	2,126	2,126	2,125	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	9,654	9,928	6	9,654	9,928	6	9,654	9,928	6	...	...	...
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	17,868	17,880	28,145	17,862	17,874	28,139	16,939	16,951	27,215	6	6	6
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	16,468	16,471	16,462	16,462	16,465	16,456	15,553	15,556	15,547	6	6	6
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	1,400	1,409	11,683	1,400	1,409	11,683	1,386	1,395	11,668	...	...	...
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	27,014	27,300	27,527	27,008	27,294	27,521	25,942	26,228	26,454	6	6	6
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	29,780	30,066	30,406	29,774	30,060	30,400	28,662	28,948	29,287	6	6	6
NON U.S. CITIZEN	57	57	59	57	57	59	57	57	59	...	...	...
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		115	116	106	115	116	106	114	115	105	...	...
JUDICIAL BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	33,771	33,771	33,762	33,402	33,402	33,393	2,832	2,832	2,823	369	369	369
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	32,266	32,266	32,254	31,918	31,918	31,906	2,692	2,692	2,680	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,408	1,408	1,411	1,390	1,390	1,393	132	132	135	18	18	18
INTERMITTENT	97	97	97	94	94	94	8	8	8	3	3	3
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	33,452	33,452	33,447	33,094	33,094	33,089	2,761	2,761	2,756	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,234	32,234	32,227	31,886	31,886	31,879	2,660	2,660	2,653	348	348	348
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	1,218	1,218	1,220	1,208	1,208	1,210	101	101	103	10	10	10
TEMPORARY POSITION	319	319	315	308	308	304	71	71	67	11	11	11
FULL-TIME	32	32	27	32	32	27	32	32	27	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	287	287	288	276	276	277	39	39	40	11	11	11
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	33,478	33,478	33,468	33,120	33,120	33,110	2,787	2,787	2,777	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,260	32,260	32,247	31,912	31,912	31,899	2,686	2,686	2,673	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,218	1,218	1,221	1,208	1,208	1,211	101	101	104	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	33,771	33,762	33,402	33,402	33,393	2,832	2,832	2,823	369	369	369
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	33,478	33,478	33,468	33,120	33,120	33,110	2,787	2,787	2,777	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	33,771	33,762	33,402	33,402	33,393	2,832	2,832	2,823	369	369	369
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	33,226	33,226	33,217	32,863	32,863	32,854	2,637	2,637	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	2,696,961	2,736,821	2,756,233	2,612,258	2,651,196	2,663,999	327,720	330,627	345,204	84,703	85,625	92,234
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,483,778	2,524,275	2,542,362	2,407,488	2,447,082	2,459,789	317,538	320,535	334,533	76,290	77,193	82,573
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	101,866	103,967	112,248	98,788	100,804	107,746	6,196	6,080	6,579	3,078	3,163	4,502
INTERMITTENT	111,317	108,579	101,623	105,982	103,310	96,464	3,986	4,012	4,092	5,335	5,269	5,159
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,504,992	2,540,227	2,580,902	2,430,147	2,464,244	2,497,996	310,766	312,896	327,602	74,845	75,983	82,906
FULL-TIME	2,397,608	2,428,849	2,460,203	2,325,225	2,355,480	2,381,845	305,680	307,773	321,867	72,383	73,369	78,358
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	107,384	111,378	120,699	104,922	108,764	116,151	5,086	5,123	5,735	2,462	2,614	4,548
TEMPORARY POSITION	191,969	196,594	175,331	182,111	186,952	166,003	16,954	17,731	17,602	9,858	9,642	9,328
FULL-TIME	86,170	95,426	82,159	82,263	91,602	77,944	11,858	12,762	12,666	3,907	3,824	4,215
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	105,799	101,168	93,172	99,848	95,350	88,059	5,096	4,969	4,936	5,951	5,818	5,113
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,455,023	2,483,018	2,512,683	2,395,140	2,423,122	2,447,088	301,408	302,626	317,173	59,883	59,896	65,595
FULL-TIME	2,360,727	2,386,471	2,411,678	2,302,680	2,328,403	2,348,676	296,844	297,998	312,543	58,047	58,068	63,002
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	86,009	88,060	91,450	84,631	86,664	90,109	4,273	4,282	4,304	1,378	1,396	1,341
INTERMITTENT	8,287	8,487	9,555	7,829	8,055	8,303	291	346	326	458	432	1,252
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	241,938	253,803	243,550	217,118	228,074	216,911	26,312	28,001	28,031	24,820	25,729	26,639
FULL-TIME	123,051	137,804	130,684	104,808	118,679	111,113	20,694	22,537	21,990	18,243	19,125	19,571
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	15,857	15,907	20,798	14,157	14,140	17,637	1,923	1,798	2,275	1,700	1,767	3,161
INTERMITTENT	103,030	100,092	92,068	98,153	95,255	88,161	3,695	3,666	3,766	4,877	4,837	3,907
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,466,286	1,501,537	1,508,428	1,437,629	1,472,525	1,479,339	229,412	230,297	232,614	28,657	29,012	29,089
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,423,999	1,454,994	1,463,209	1,396,716	1,427,393	1,435,649	225,085	226,008	228,252	27,283	27,601	27,560
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	42,287	46,543	45,219	40,913	45,132	43,690	4,327	4,289	4,362	1,374	1,411	1,529
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,230,675	1,235,284	1,247,805	1,174,629	1,178,671	1,184,660	98,308	100,330	112,590	56,046	56,613	63,145
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,031,024	1,028,024	1,049,474	998,424	995,729	1,011,439	76,323	76,618	88,921	32,600	32,295	38,035
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	199,651	207,260	198,331	176,205	182,942	173,221	21,985	23,712	23,669	23,446	24,318	25,110
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	200,977	208,370	210,755	195,727	203,043	205,452	7,586	7,724	12,509	5,250	5,327	5,303
POSTAL	592,750	599,639	609,921	589,983	596,856	607,066	12,385	12,440	12,299	2,767	2,783	2,855
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,903,234	1,928,812	1,935,557	1,826,548	1,851,297	1,851,481	307,749	310,463	320,396	76,686	77,515	84,076
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,663,723	2,703,171	2,722,001	2,605,557	2,644,144	2,656,668	324,486	327,313	341,719	58,166	59,027	65,333
NON U.S. CITIZEN	33,238	33,650	34,232	6,701	7,052	7,331	3,234	3,314	3,485	26,537	26,598	26,901
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		32,686	37,560	29,765	28,242	33,174	28,637	5,307	6,098	4,856	4,444	4,386

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