The federal workforce is older on average. Almost 30 percent (635,397) of employees are older than 55, while 8.1 percent (176,805) of employees are younger than 30. By comparison, in the private sector, 23 percent of the workforce is younger than 30. Every single agency has fewer employees younger than 30 today than they had in 2010.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this year issued a report on workers age 40 and over in the federal workforce with details regarding pay disparities, the proportion of older workers on staff, complaints of age discrimination, and how this group compares to workers in the private sector.
The report by the EEOC’s Office of Federal Operations found that the federal government – the nation’s largest employer with about two million workers – generally outperforms the private sector in diversity for this cohort of workers.
For example, employees 40 and over had greater representation in the federal sector (72%) than in the non-federal civilian labor force (54%), and was more diverse -- most race and national origin groups were represented in the federal government at rates equal to or greater than the CLF.
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