Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant Federal Employee Pay and Staffing

March 2025 workforce snapshot. The Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant occupation series had 45,351 employees with an average salary of $53,871.

45,351 employees in this occupation series

$53,871 average pay

"General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group" occupation family

Veterans Health Administration largest agency for this occupation

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Occupation family

Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant is reported under the "General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services Group" family in the latest OPM summary.

Agencies that employ the most Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant staff

These are the agencies with the biggest reported headcount in this occupation series.

Agency	Department	Employees	Total salary expense	Average pay	Share of occupation
Veterans Health Administration	Department of Veterans Affairs	7,917	$440,471,405	$55,636	17.5%
Internal Revenue Service	Department of the Treasury	7,045	$320,043,014	$45,428	15.5%
U.s. Census Bureau	Department of Commerce	6,842	$302,802,882	$44,256	15.1%
Federal Bureau of Investigation	Department of Justice	2,073	$125,033,141	$60,315	4.6%
Military Treatment Facilities Under DHA	Department of Defense	1,106	$62,681,288	$56,674	2.4%
U. S. Military Entrance Processing Command	Department of Defense	1,049	$48,021,635	$45,778	2.3%
U.s. Army Corps of Engineers	Department of Defense	1,033	$57,586,280	$55,747	2.3%
United States Army Installation Management Command	Department of Defense	869	$48,900,907	$56,273	1.9%
Forest Service	Department of Agriculture	681	$34,563,407	$50,754	1.5%
National Park Service	Department of the Interior	615	$33,276,001	$54,107	1.4%
Air Combat Command	Department of Defense	572	$31,448,870	$54,981	1.3%
Veterans Benefits Administration	Department of Veterans Affairs	559	$30,001,473	$53,670	1.2%
Air Education and Training Command	Department of Defense	507	$27,426,010	$54,095	1.1%
Defense Commissary Agency	Department of Defense	472	$21,649,898	$45,868	1.0%
Social Security Administration	Independent or mixed	451	$25,624,661	$56,817	1.0%
Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System	Department of Justice	424	$30,262,865	$71,375	0.9%
Air Mobility Command	Department of Defense	392	$22,257,212	$56,779	0.9%
U.s. Army Training and Doctrine Command	Department of Defense	364	$20,563,123	$56,492	0.8%
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service	Department of Agriculture	327	$18,742,084	$57,315	0.7%
Indian Health Service	Department of Health and Human Services	318	$18,204,287	$57,246	0.7%
U.s. Army Reserve Command	Department of Defense	313	$19,009,985	$60,735	0.7%
Bureau of Land Management	Department of the Interior	310	$16,604,798	$53,564	0.7%
National Institutes of Health	Department of Health and Human Services	288	$19,196,317	$66,654	0.6%
"Headquarters, Air Force Reserve Command"	Department of Defense	279	$16,445,705	$58,945	0.6%
Air Force Materiel Command	Department of Defense	269	$14,919,321	$55,462	0.6%

Common pay plans for Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant

This shows the pay plans most commonly attached to this occupation series in the latest OPM summary.

Pay plan	Employees	Average pay	Share of occupation
GS	37,321	$53,230	82.3%
GG	3,362	$41,412	7.4%
GL	391	$72,391	0.9%
ZS	257	$71,190	0.6%
FG	217	$60,776	0.5%
IR	194	$55,568	0.4%
NK	174	$59,285	0.4%
AD	150	$142,009	0.3%
DG	145	$65,956	0.3%
VC	125	$46,460	0.3%
DK	117	$58,200	0.3%
SV	101	$65,507	0.2%

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Occupation totals come from the latest OPM FedScope Employment Summary Data (March 2025).