Excepted Agencies

Excepted Agencies


The following is a partial list of excepted agencies and
excepted occupations within agencies.

Agency for International Development
2401 E Street NW.
Room 1127
Washington, DC 20523

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
Washington, DC 20551

Central Intelligence Agency
Office of Personnel
P.O. Box 12727
Arlington, VA 22209-8727

Defense Intelligence Agency
Civilian Staffing Operations
Division (DPH-2)
3100 Clarendon Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201-5322

Department of Veterans Affairs
(Health care occupations)
Veterans Health Services and Research Administration
Recruitment and Examining Division (O54E)
810 Vermont Avenue NW.
Washington, DC 20420

Federal Bureau of Investigation
10th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
Washington, DC 20535

National Security Agency
9800 Savage Road
Fort Meade, MD 20755-6000
Attention: M352

Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Office of Personnel
Washington, DC 20555

Postal Rate Commission
Administrative Office, Suite 300
1333 H Street NW.
Washington, DC 20268-0001

Tennessee Valley Authority
Employment Services, ET 5C 50P-K
400 West Summit Hill Drive
Knoxville, TN 37902

State Department
(Foreign Service positions)
Recruitment Division
P.O. Box 9317
Rosslyn Station
Arlington, VA 22209


The Other Branches of the Federal Government


The Judicial Branch
(except the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
and the United States Claims Court)
Personnel Office
United States Supreme Court Building
One First Street NE.
Washington, DC 20543

The Legislative Branch
(including senators' and representatives' offices, Library of
Congress, and the Capitol) For inquiries about employment at the
House, Senate, or Capitol, contact either the House or Senate.

U.S. House of Representatives
Placement Office
Washington, DC 20515

U.S. Senate
Placement Office
SH-142B Hart Building
Washington, DC 20510

General Accounting Office
Office of Recruitment
Room 1050
441 G Street NW.
Washington, DC 20548

The Library of Congress
Employment Office, LM-107
James Madison Memorial Building
101 Independence Avenue SE.
Washington, DC 20540


Who Is Being Hired by the Federal Government --
The Word from OPM


The kinds of workers hired by the Federal Government
reflect the kind of work it has to do. According to Civil
Service 2000, developed for the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management (OPM), Federal jobs are much more likely to be
white-collar and professional/administrative than those in the
economy as a whole.

Among Federal workers, the share of professional,
administrative, technical, and management-related jobs is about
48 percent. nearly twice the rate for the labor force as a
whole. Blue-collar jobs make up only about 19 percent of the
Federal work force, compared to 28 percent for the country as a
whole. And marketing and sales jobs, which account for more
than 10 percent of the national labor force, are almost
entirely missing from the Federal job mix, making up a
minuscule one-half of 1 percent.

Because of their job requirements, Federal workers have
higher language and math skills, on average, than does the
labor force as a whole. For example, some 16 percent of all
Federal jobs--more than three times the national rate--require
employees to read scientific or technical journals, financial
reports, legal documents, or other materials. Algebra,
statistics, trigonometry, and calculus are also required for a
large proportion of Federal jobs. About 31 percent of Federal
workers are college graduates, compared with less than 25
percent for the labor force as a whole.

The majority of Federal workers are in the competitive
service, but large numbers are in excepted agencies or
occupations, as explained in the article, and even larger
numbers work for the Postal Service. (See chart 1.) These
workers are employed throughout the country and around the
world, although about 12 percent of the jobs are in or near the
Capital.

Competition for jobs is extremely keen. Best bets for
Federal employment are found among the hard sciences, financial
management, health occupations, and some engineering
specialties. Chart 3 shows which agencies hired the largest
numbers of college graduates in fiscal 1992. OOChart, on page
40, shows the occupations of the college graduates hired.

In general, the Federal Government does very little hiring
at salaries above $40,000. In 1987. for example, only 3,000
full-time workers were hired at that level. In contrast, 10
percent of the people in the entry-level professional and
administrative positions (at grades GS-5 through GS-8) were new
hires that year.

Over the next decade, Federal employment, especially in
the Defense Department, may decline. Nevertheless, the number
of workers in some occupations will increase. Likely areas of
growth are health: law: contract, procurement, and management:
and Internal Revenue Service agent.


Chart 1.

Distribution of Federal Civilian Employment by Service,
January 1993



Chart 2.

Distribution of Federal Civilian Employment by Geographic Area,
January 1993