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Federal Government Employment

U.S. federal civilian payroll jobs, thousands

2,682 in Sep 2026+349 since Jan 1960
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U.S. recessionsShades the months the NBER dates as recession. U.S. charts only.5-year rangeThe highest and lowest readings of the last five years, as a band. One-series charts only.High and lowMarks the highest and lowest readings in the window shown.
Current·Data to Sep 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Excludes the military. Hiring for each decennial census shows as a brief spike.

The civilian federal workforce over six decades, from the monthly jobs report. Decennial census hiring shows as brief spikes.

What this chart reads

Sources

Federal Government Payrolls. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, series CES9091000001 ("All Employees"), published with the monthly Employment Situation report. Palanor pulls it from the FRED API (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) nightly. BLS data are in the public domain.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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