The Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) has posted updated figures for the number of employees at the Social Security Administration:
- June 2018 60,898
- December 2017 62,777
- September 2017 62,297
- June 2017 61,592
- March 2017 62,183
- December 2016 63,364
- December 2015 65,518
- December 2014 65,430
- December 2013 61,957
- December 2012 64,538
- September 2011 67,136
- December 2010 70,270
- December 2009 67,486
- December 2008 63,733
- September 2008 63,990
4 comments:
The day I left the DO as a TII and TXVI CR was one of the best days of my life. Within a few months of leaving, no HBP meds, no anti-depressants, got my life back. Hard to leave GS 11 pay at first, but worth it to get out.
June is right before the deluge of new attorney advisor DWs were hired on, so I'm interested to see how the year finished out between those few hundred folks, whatever other hiring SSA did, and then the usual slew of retirements at the end of the year.
In June there were 1620 ALJs on duty (only 1500 "available" so presumably others in training or on leave) and by November it went down to 1568 with 1474 available. So it will be interesting to see whether new hires won out over attrition, or vice versa.
The loss is not easily repaired. A new hire TII takes about two years to get up to full speed and full workload, there is a lot to learn and do for the CRs. I am sure there are other positions that take time as well to get to a full work load. New hires will do little in the immediate future to eliminate problems and they lack the long term historical view of programs over the years.
As the wave of retirement age SSI hires age out of SSA it is going to get real interesting in the trenches.
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