Employment and Trends - December 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	DECEMBER 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2012*	DECEMBER 2011**	DECEMBER 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2012*	DECEMBER 2011**	DECEMBER 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2012*	DECEMBER 2011**	DECEMBER 2012*	SEPTEMBER 2012*	DECEMBER 2011**
TOTAL CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT	2,777,403	2,760,569	2,789,883	2,689,159	2,675,491	2,699,073	360,008	359,271	368,664	88,244	85,078	90,810
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,552,262	2,545,516	2,569,853	2,471,674	2,468,872	2,487,260	349,219	348,631	357,725	80,588	76,644	82,593
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	101,801	103,557	111,072	98,145	100,461	106,670	6,476	6,567	6,579	3,656	3,096	4,402
INTERMITTENT	123,340	111,496	108,958	119,340	106,158	105,143	4,313	4,073	4,360	4,000	5,338	3,815
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,551,241	2,550,173	2,607,772	2,478,696	2,474,964	2,524,893	324,481	324,158	335,546	72,545	75,209	82,846
FULL-TIME	2,443,330	2,441,295	2,487,647	2,373,692	2,368,558	2,408,797	319,592	318,742	329,824	69,638	72,737	78,850
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	107,911	108,878	120,125	105,004	106,406	116,096	4,889	5,416	5,722	2,907	2,472	3,996
TEMPORARY POSITION	226,162	210,396	182,111	210,463	200,527	174,180	35,527	35,113	33,118	15,699	9,869	7,964
FULL-TIME	108,932	104,221	82,206	97,982	100,314	78,463	29,627	29,889	27,901	10,950	3,907	3,743
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	117,230	106,175	99,905	112,481	100,213	95,717	5,900	5,224	5,217	4,749	5,962	4,221
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,527,467	2,507,284	2,545,055	2,463,780	2,447,037	2,480,016	324,108	321,874	333,726	63,687	60,247	65,039
FULL-TIME	2,432,516	2,411,515	2,443,029	2,370,234	2,353,114	2,379,816	319,066	316,996	328,623	62,282	58,401	63,213
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	86,409	87,471	92,709	85,422	86,083	91,276	4,663	4,576	4,657	987	1,388	1,433
INTERMITTENT	8,542	8,298	9,317	8,124	7,840	8,924	379	302	446	418	458	393
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	249,936	253,285	244,828	225,379	228,454	219,057	35,900	37,397	34,938	24,557	24,831	25,771
FULL-TIME	119,746	134,001	126,824	101,440	115,758	107,444	30,153	31,635	29,102	18,306	18,243	19,380
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	15,392	16,086	18,363	12,723	14,378	15,394	1,813	1,991	1,922	2,669	1,708	2,969
INTERMITTENT	114,798	103,198	99,641	111,216	98,318	96,219	3,934	3,771	3,914	3,582	4,880	3,422
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,489,684	1,478,255	1,486,472	1,462,074	1,449,598	1,457,336	242,467	241,192	241,319	27,610	28,657	29,136
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,446,019	1,426,314	1,451,683	1,419,716	1,399,031	1,424,067	228,781	227,211	236,970	26,303	27,283	27,616
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	43,665	51,941	34,789	42,358	50,567	33,269	13,686	13,981	4,349	1,307	1,374	1,520
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,287,719	1,282,314	1,303,411	1,227,085	1,225,893	1,241,737	117,541	118,079	127,345	60,634	56,421	61,674
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,081,448	1,080,970	1,093,372	1,044,064	1,048,006	1,055,949	95,327	94,663	96,756	37,384	32,964	37,423
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	206,271	201,344	210,039	183,021	177,887	185,788	22,214	23,416	30,589	23,250	23,457	24,251
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	211,556	203,800	214,698	201,596	198,550	203,470	10,439	10,363	11,613	9,960	5,250	11,228
POSTAL	595,783	592,750	612,759	593,003	589,983	609,880	12,813	12,385	12,449	2,780	2,767	2,879
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,970,064	1,964,019	1,962,426	1,894,560	1,886,958	1,885,723	336,756	336,523	344,602	75,504	77,061	76,703
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,744,524	2,726,729	2,755,185	2,682,003	2,668,194	2,691,395	356,610	355,785	366,303	62,521	58,535	63,790
NON U.S. CITIZEN	32,879	33,840	34,698	7,156	7,297	7,678	3,398	3,486	2,361	25,723	26,543	27,020
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		29,500	32,801	31,216	28,994	28,357	30,871	5,094	5,421	11,981	506	4,444
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	29,848	29,837	30,357	29,842	29,831	30,351	28,730	28,719	29,238	6	6	6
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	29,482	29,472	29,994	29,476	29,466	29,988	28,411	28,401	28,922	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	284	283	283	284	283	283	240	239	239	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	82	82	80	82	82	80	79	79	77	...	...	...
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	11,730	11,729	11,716	11,724	11,723	11,710	10,632	10,631	10,618	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	11,453	11,453	11,442	11,447	11,447	11,436	10,402	10,402	10,391	6	6	6
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	277	276	274	277	276	274	230	229	227	...	...	...
TEMPORARY POSITION	18,118	18,108	18,641	18,118	18,108	18,641	18,098	18,088	18,620	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	18,029	18,019	18,552	18,029	18,019	18,552	18,009	17,999	18,531	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	89	89	89	89	89	89	89	89	89	...	...	...
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	18,724	18,783	18,770	18,718	18,777	18,764	17,620	17,679	17,666	6	6	6
FULL-TIME	18,469	18,528	18,513	18,463	18,522	18,507	17,407	17,466	17,451	6	6	6
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	245	244	246	245	244	246	203	202	204	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	10	11	11	10	11	11	10	11	11	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	11,124	11,054	11,587	11,124	11,054	11,587	11,110	11,040	11,572	...	...	...
FULL-TIME	11,013	10,944	11,481	11,013	10,944	11,481	11,004	10,935	11,471	...	...	...
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	39	39	37	39	39	37	37	37	35	...	...	...
INTERMITTENT	72	71	69	72	71	69	69	68	66	...	...	...
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	11,983	11,969	2,320	11,983	11,969	2,320	11,794	11,780	2,131	...	...	...
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	2,315	2,315	2,315	2,315	2,315	2,315	2,126	2,126	2,126	...	...	...
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	9,668	9,654	5	9,668	9,654	5	9,668	9,654	5	...	...	...
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	17,865	17,868	28,037	17,859	17,862	28,031	16,936	16,939	27,107	6	6	6
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	16,409	16,468	16,455	16,403	16,462	16,449	15,494	15,553	15,540	6	6	6
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	1,456	1,400	11,582	1,456	1,400	11,582	1,442	1,386	11,567	...	...	...
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	2,823	2,823	2,823	2,823	2,823	2,823	2,777	2,777	2,777	...	...	...
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	27,025	27,014	27,534	27,019	27,008	27,528	25,953	25,942	26,461	6	6	6
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	29,791	29,780	30,300	29,785	29,774	30,294	28,673	28,662	29,181	6	6	6
NON U.S. CITIZEN	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	57	...	...	...
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		115	115	115	115	115	115	114	114	114	...	...
JUDICIAL BRANCH EMPLOYMENT	33,772	33,771	33,762	33,403	33,402	33,393	2,833	2,832	2,823	369	369	369
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	32,264	32,266	32,254	31,916	31,918	31,906	2,690	2,692	2,680	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,411	1,408	1,411	1,393	1,390	1,393	135	132	135	18	18	18
INTERMITTENT	97	97	97	94	94	94	8	8	8	3	3	3
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	33,450	33,452	33,447	33,092	33,094	33,089	2,759	2,761	2,756	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,229	32,234	32,227	31,881	31,886	31,879	2,655	2,660	2,653	348	348	348
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	1,221	1,218	1,220	1,211	1,208	1,210	104	101	103	10	10	10
TEMPORARY POSITION	322	319	315	311	308	304	74	71	67	11	11	11
FULL-TIME	35	32	27	35	32	27	35	32	27	...	...	...
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	287	287	288	276	276	277	39	39	40	11	11	11
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	33,479	33,478	33,468	33,121	33,120	33,110	2,788	2,787	2,777	358	358	358
FULL-TIME	32,258	32,260	32,247	31,910	31,912	31,899	2,684	2,686	2,673	348	348	348
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	1,221	1,218	1,221	1,211	1,208	1,211	104	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	33,772	33,771	33,762	33,403	33,402	33,393	2,833	2,832	2,823	369	369	369
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	33,479	33,478	33,468	33,121	33,120	33,110	2,788	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	33,772	33,771	33,762	33,403	33,402	33,393	2,833	2,832	2,823	369	369	369
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	33,227	33,226	33,217	32,864	32,863	32,854	2,638	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	2,713,783	2,696,961	2,725,764	2,625,914	2,612,258	2,635,329	328,445	327,720	336,603	87,869	84,703	90,435
WORK SCHEDULE:
FULL-TIME	2,490,516	2,483,778	2,507,605	2,410,282	2,407,488	2,425,366	318,118	317,538	326,123	80,234	76,290	82,239
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	100,106	101,866	109,378	96,468	98,788	104,994	6,101	6,196	6,205	3,638	3,078	4,384
INTERMITTENT	123,161	111,317	108,781	119,164	105,982	104,969	4,226	3,986	4,275	3,997	5,335	3,812
POSITION OCCUPIED:
PERMANENT POSITION	2,506,061	2,504,992	2,562,609	2,433,880	2,430,147	2,480,094	311,090	310,766	322,172	72,181	74,845	82,482
FULL-TIME	2,399,648	2,397,608	2,443,978	2,330,364	2,325,225	2,365,482	306,535	305,680	316,780	69,284	72,383	78,496
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	106,413	107,384	118,631	103,516	104,922	114,612	4,555	5,086	5,392	2,897	2,462	3,986
TEMPORARY POSITION	207,722	191,969	163,155	192,034	182,111	155,235	17,355	16,954	14,431	15,688	9,858	7,953
FULL-TIME	90,868	86,170	63,627	79,918	82,263	59,884	11,583	11,858	9,343	10,950	3,907	3,743
PART-TIME AND INTERMITTENT	116,854	105,799	99,528	112,116	99,848	95,351	5,772	5,096	5,088	4,738	5,951	4,210
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:
PERMANENT	2,475,264	2,455,023	2,492,817	2,411,941	2,395,140	2,428,142	303,700	301,408	313,283	63,323	59,883	64,675
FULL-TIME	2,381,789	2,360,727	2,392,269	2,319,861	2,302,680	2,329,410	298,975	296,844	308,499	61,928	58,047	62,859
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	84,943	86,009	91,242	83,966	84,631	89,819	4,356	4,273	4,349	977	1,378	1,423
INTERMITTENT	8,532	8,287	9,306	8,114	7,829	8,913	369	291	435	418	458	393
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	238,519	241,938	232,947	213,973	217,118	207,187	24,745	26,312	23,320	24,546	24,820	25,760
FULL-TIME	108,727	123,051	115,336	90,421	104,808	95,956	19,143	20,694	17,624	18,306	18,243	19,380
PART-TIME (REGULARLY SCHEDULED)	15,163	15,857	18,136	12,502	14,157	15,175	1,745	1,923	1,856	2,661	1,700	2,961
INTERMITTENT	114,629	103,030	99,475	111,050	98,153	96,056	3,857	3,695	3,840	3,579	4,877	3,419
TYPE OF SERVICE:
COMPETITIVE SERVICE	1,477,701	1,466,286	1,484,152	1,450,091	1,437,629	1,455,016	230,673	229,412	239,188	27,610	28,657	29,136
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,443,704	1,423,999	1,449,368	1,417,401	1,396,716	1,421,752	226,655	225,085	234,844	26,303	27,283	27,616
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	33,997	42,287	34,784	32,690	40,913	33,264	4,018	4,327	4,344	1,307	1,374	1,520
EXCEPTED AND SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICES	1,236,082	1,230,675	1,241,612	1,175,823	1,174,629	1,180,313	97,772	98,308	97,415	60,259	56,046	61,299
PERMANENT APPOINTMENT	1,031,560	1,031,024	1,043,449	994,540	998,424	1,006,390	77,045	76,323	78,439	37,020	32,600	37,059
TEMPORARY AND INDEFINITE	204,522	199,651	198,163	181,283	176,205	173,923	20,727	21,985	18,976	23,239	23,446	24,240
PAY SYSTEM:
WAGE	208,733	200,977	211,875	198,773	195,727	200,647	7,662	7,586	8,836	9,960	5,250	11,228
POSTAL	595,783	592,750	612,759	593,003	589,983	609,880	12,813	12,385	12,449	2,780	2,767	2,879
GENERAL SCHEDULE AND OTHER	1,909,267	1,903,234	1,901,130	1,834,138	1,826,548	1,824,802	307,970	307,749	315,318	75,129	76,686	76,328
CITIZENSHIP:
U.S. CITIZEN	2,681,506	2,663,723	2,691,668	2,619,354	2,605,557	2,628,247	325,299	324,486	334,494	62,152	58,166	63,421
NON U.S. CITIZEN	32,277	33,238	34,096	6,560	6,701	7,082	3,146	3,234	2,109	25,717	26,537	27,014
TOTAL INTERMITTENTS NOT WORKING ***		29,385	32,686	31,101	28,879	28,242	30,756	4,980	5,307	11,867	506	4,444

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