Across a 25-year period the percentage of SES members their 40s fell from 28.5 to 21.7 percent. Image: NetVideo/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe SES cadre has grown more diverse over the last 25 years while the average age and years of service have increased, according to an analysis by the Partnership for Public Service of the highest level to which career federal employees typically can reach.
As of last year the career portion of the SES—who make up about nine-tenths of the total of some 8,200—was 62.4 percent male vs. 37.6 percent female, compared with 79.9 and 20.1 in 1998. “However, the balance continues to lag behind the federal workforce as a whole, which was 44% female in 2022,” it said.
While data on race and ethnicity are available only since 2007, it added, in that year “just 16% of career SES identified as people of color. By 2022, this number had risen to 24.7%. By contrast, 39.2% of the total federal workforce identified as people of color in 2022.”
Across the entire 25-year period, most SES members were in their 50s but the percentage in their 40s fell from 28.5 to 21.7 percent while the share of those age 60 and above more than doubled to 26.6 percent. Similarly, the share of those with 30 or more years of federal experience rose from 26.2 to 32 percent.
The combination of age and years of service in turn means that of SES members as of fiscal 2020, 62.2 percent will be eligible to retire as of 2025 and 79.8 percent will be eligible as of 2030.
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