Apr 14, 2010

Social Security Employment Stabilizes

Below are the December 2009 figures for the number of employees at Social Security, recently released by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), along with earlier figures for comparison purposes.
  • December 2009 67,486
  • September 2009 67,632
  • June 2009 66,614
  • March 2009 63,229
  • December 2008 63,733
  • September 2008 63,990
  • September 2007 62,407
  • September 2006 63,647
  • September 2005 66,147
  • September 2004 65,258
  • September 2003 64,903
  • September 2002 64,648
  • September 2001 65,377
  • September 2000 64,521
  • September 1999 63,957
  • September 1998 65,629

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is there any breakdown of SSA staff in field offices vs the rest (HQ, regional offices, ALJs)?
I wonder if there's any count of the number of associate and deputy associate commissioners at HQ?

Anonymous said...

So SSA has 2.8 percent more staff than it did in Sep 1998--I'd call that "stabilized" all right.

Diane Owens said...

There were over 84,000 employees at SSA in the early 80's before downsizing and before the steady increases in workloads. Automation has helped some but service has inevitably suffered as experienced staff has retired in recent years. There are few left to mentor new hires and less time to train.