Department of Defense civilian workforce
The Department of Defense had 136,860 civilian employees in September 2026. OPM's public data file withholds pay for every employee of this agency, so PublicPay cannot report its salaries. What is published is headcount by occupation, shown below.
Pay for this agency is redacted in OPM's public Federal Workforce Data files. Pay for most of these jobs follows public pay tables (for example, the General Schedule and the Federal Wage System), but PublicPay does not estimate individual agencies' pay from tables. See the GS pay scale for how federal pay is set.
Largest occupations by headcount
Occupations with at least 30 employees at this agency. Occupations link to their government-wide salary pages, which use agencies where pay is published.
| Occupation | Employees | Share of agency |
|---|---|---|
| Information Technology Management Series 2210 | 9,647 | 7% |
| Nurse Series 0610 | 8,109 | 5.9% |
| Contracting Series 1102 | 7,558 | 5.5% |
| Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series 0301 | 6,327 | 4.6% |
| Management and Program Analysis Series 0343 | 5,644 | 4.1% |
| General Education and Training Series 1701 | 5,627 | 4.1% |
| Auditing Series 0511 | 3,660 | 2.7% |
| General Business and Industry Series 1101 | 3,658 | 2.7% |
| Financial Administration and Program Series 0501 | 3,600 | 2.6% |
| Quality Assurance Series 1910 | 3,566 | 2.6% |
| Security Administration Series 0080 | 2,674 | 2% |
| Medical Support Assistance Series 0679 | 2,667 | 1.9% |
| Accounting Series 0510 | 2,601 | 1.9% |
| Education and Vocational Training Series 1710 | 2,447 | 1.8% |
| General Engineering Series 0801 | 2,213 | 1.6% |
Change since September 2025
Headcount went from 136,385 to 136,860 (+0.3%).
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