In all years, quits accounted for the largest number of separations. Image: Rioji/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffRetirements and other forms of turnover among federal employees rose by around 11,000 in fiscal 2022, according to newly posted data on the OPM FedScope database covering the entirety of that fiscal year.
Total separations from federal service—separate from separations for transfers among agencies—were just below 231,000, up from about 220,000 in 2021; at about 191,000, 2020 had been a notably low year, with other years in the past 10 ranging from about 201,000 to about 209,000.
In all years, quits accounted for the largest number of separations, with about 109,000 in 2022, up by some 15,000 from 2021 and a 10-year high. In other years in that period quits ranged from about 73,000 to about 84,000. Retirements accounted for the next-largest, about 72,000 in 2022, also a 10-year high; in other years in that period retirements ranged from about 62,000 to about 69,000.
Last year meanwhile hit a low for separation by RIF at 45, compared with about 100 to about 700 over the rest of the period. Separations for performance or conduct reasons were about 9,700, toward the low end of the period, in which they ranged from about 9,600 to about 12,400.
Terminations on the end of a time-limited appointment made up almost all of the rest.
The figures cover executive branch employees outside the Postal Service and intelligence agencies.
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