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Which Gov’t Agencies Have the Most and Least Satisfying Jobs? Survey Tells All

Nov. 28, 2012 8:20am

Each year, the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management surveys its employees (as many as it can get to take the survey) to gauge job satisfaction.

With this Employee Viewpoint Survey comes a ranking of the most satisfying government agencies to work in — and the least. We’ve pulled out the top 10 of each.

The number in parenthesis after each agency is the score it received on the “job satisfaction index.”

Governments Employee Viewpoint Survey Shows Most Satisfying Government Jobs: NASA Takes First

NASA was ranked the most satisfying agency to work for in the federal government. (Photo: AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Most Satisfying

  1. NASA (74)
  2. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (73)
  3. Office of Management and Budget (72)
  4. National Credit Union Administration (72)
  5. Department of State (71)
  6. Federal Trade Commission (70)
  7. General Services Administration (70)
  8. Department of Commerce (69)
  9. Office of Personnel Management (69)
  10. Railroad Retirement Board (69)

Least Satisfying 

  1. National Archives and Records Administration (59)
  2. Broadcasting Board of Governors (61)
  3. Department of Homeland Security (61)
  4. Securities And Exchange Commission (62)
  5. Department of Housing and Urban Development (63)
  6. Department of Veterans Affairs (64)
  7. National Labor Relations Board (64)
  8. National Science Foundation (64)
  9. Department of Education (64)
  10. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (65)

According to a press release about the results, which became available earlier this month, a record number of employees responded to this year’s survey.

“These results show that federal employees continue to be as dedicated to their agencies, their mission, and to public service as ever before,” OPM Director John Berry said in the press release. “Agencies can learn a lot from the greater detail and granularity in this year’s report and I know that this survey will be used to identify strengths, address weaknesses, and better serve the American people.”

Among other results, 80 percent of employees reported liking what they do for the government and understanding how it relates to their agency’s goals. The press release stated that almost all responding employees said they thought their work was important.

Did any of the most or least satisfying surprise you? Let us know in the comments.

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Comments (30)

  • Hopefulone
    Posted on November 29, 2012 at 5:30am

    Two things to remember:
    1) The federal budget is 2/3 handouts and 1/3 business of government (including DOD), so when you go looking for savings (and horrendous waste), don’t forget the “Entitlements.” Our government would not be in debt if it were not for the give-aways — despite the gold-plated federal workforce.
    2) That said, yes, the fed workforce is stealing your children’s future opportunities. They all know they are pretty much sponging off the taxpayers, and they have their unions fighting to get more for less. They avoid thinking about it because “everybody else is doing it,” which they get away with because there are legitimate functions of government. They don’t care because, hey *they* are taxpayers. (…like it would work if there were no producers, if *EVERYBODY* was an over-priced fed worker?). Higher inefficiency and higher “make-work”/”box-checking” means more “slots” for their friends in government.

    Go to the parking lots for any federal office in the DC area and count the luxury cars. It’s kind of sickening knowing there are honest, hard-working Americans having their wallets emptied to pay for part of it. It’s really sick when you note that 40% of the cost is paid through DEBT. It is insane when you add on the pension liability bomb that is ticking. That is a mushroom cloud.

    …so cut entitlements by 50% and the federal workforce (including contractors) by 50% and save our children’s future. It is the only moral thing

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 3:48pm

    Their wages, benefits, and retirements are bankrupting our children, and if 75% of them were gone……..,,,,,,,we would never ever even notice……………………..NEVER EVEN NOTICE………

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Not even a little bit true, DP. You’d notice – because the debt would immediately drop, and the “crisis” would shift to some other problem.

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      Jaycen  
  • rsanchez1
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 11:53am

    At the top are people who actually accomplish anything (NASA) and people who throw lavish parties at taxpayers’ expense (General Services Administration).

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  • Eastinfection
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:50am

    #1 “Least Satisfying” government job: “National Archives and Records Administration”

    Wow… i’m surprised at that. Figured it would be pretty exciting to catalog and store every private citizen’s text messages, emails, and phone records.

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  • benwasright
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:34am

    Government unions will bankrupt America.

    8/13/10 USA Today: Federal civil servants earned average pay and benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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  • Proverbs17-12NLT
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:27am

    I thought the program for testing herring sperm to see if it cures aids would of made the list or the folks who scrape gum from under tables at bus stations, and you can’t leave out those highly talented Angry protest sign painters.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:27am

    To me, The list of the least satisfying is the ones that are giving the American people the most grief, especially homeland security, national labor relations board, department of education & the federal energy regulatory commission.

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  • The Jewish Avenger
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:23am

    If DeptofEd and most of these groups are dissatisfied, try to see what the private sector version is offering… Anyone else paying 15k of their employees health insurance EACH?

    Ya, its amazing what “benies” these guys take for granted.

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  • hyjyljyj
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:20am

    Amazing…GSA near the top of the list of satisfying jobs. Who’dathunkit? Lavish trips to Hawaii and Vegas on the hardworking taxpayers’ dime…who do they think they are, Emperor and Empress Fauxbama??

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    hyjyljyj  
  • TheMajority
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:19am

    Remember when your Uncle bent down to you as a toddler, and asked you what you wanted to be when you grow up? Nobody said, “I want to work for the government” unless it was a Fireman or a Policeman.

    If you have a goernment job, you should feel disatisified. I know I would. Your overhead, taking tax payers (producers) money, and your not following your own direction with Capitalism in the free market—so you really have no happyness for your “self” to persue. You just get a pay check from somebody elses profits, and profits are low.

    How about this idea? We get opportunity back in the USA again by making it the most attractive place to do business in the world, then you government “workers” could persue your own dreams—because we will only pay you minimum wage for your public service if you don’t.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:03am

    DHS not satisfied, most of that is probably booty warriors or i guess we call them TSA agents not happy with the booty walking through the airport scanners or getting pat downs.

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    Individualism  
  • gzorpe
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:01am

    Hey I need to know more about the least satisfying departments to work for… such as what’s the average employee salary of each department, what’s the departments budget, how many people work for the department, what’s the #1 job, mission, reason for existence of the department… etc. I need these statistics for my “Kill This Department & Fire Everyone Today”! T-Shirts…

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:50am

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    I figured the Least Satisfying job would be “Brown Nosing” Obama………

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    • Eastinfection
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:53am

      I don’t know about that…. Worked out well for Solyndra… they got billion$ for enduring it.

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      Eastinfection  
    • Mo Better
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 3:22pm

      Harry Reid, Pelousy, Axelrod, Jarrett, Susan Rice, Carney, Holder, Sunstein, Trumpka, Sebelius, Sotomayor, Kagan and countless millions of obamanalites would disagree….

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      Mo Better  
  • jungle J
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:42am

    at least 50% should be privatized. I worked for government and many if not most are lazy and or incompetent.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:50am

      The government is about as useful as unions and just as corrupt.

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      progressiveslayer  
    • Pantloadian
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 10:44am

      JUNGLE . . .but of course you weren’t lazy or incompetent. You were one of the good ones. What’s your pension?

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      Pantloadian  
  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:39am

    Government jobs are great,you get paid weather or not you do your job and the job you do have is probably unnecessary or redundant. The federal government is filled with unconstitutional agencies that strip us of our civil liberties ie DHS TSA and many more and you couldn’t get fired from a government job if you tried.

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  • vaman
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:35am

    Let the Fed Gov employee bashing begin!!

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    vaman  
    • blanco5
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:39am

      Deservingly so!

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      blanco5  
    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:49am

      It should be a national sport and the DC hogs should be afraid of the people because that ensures liberty.Instead of the way it is today where the ‘servants’ are the master.

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    • hyjyljyj
      Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:19am

      Don’t get sensitive. This isn’t fedgov EMPLOYEE bashing; those are individual citizens who had to have some kind of job, regular folks most of ‘em. We’re also not bashing military members. This is purely the bashing of BLOATED FEDGOV, meaning that part of the fedgov that is bloated, that is beyond its necessary and Constitutional usefulness. Not all of it is bloat; you need SOME fedgov, just a tiny, tiny, submicroscopic fraction of what we have. We’re bashing the commie jerks at the top who make the decisions to grow the ravenous behemoth to increase their hold on power.

      If I were in charge the size of fedgov would be reduced by 80% almost overnight, with a goal of 90% in my first term. Even that would be too massive, but you have to start somewhere. It would easily run on a 5% national sales tax–with a bunch of revenue left over. It’s called “surplus”, which we haven’t seen since Republicans controlled the entire Congress in the 90s. Citizens who are physically able need to grow up and stand on their own two feet, and make their own way in the world, then buy a bunch of US-made quality stuff and pay the tax on it. Not jump around like toothless monkeys in the street raving about their “free” so-called “obamacare” and “obamaphone”. (Sorry. Can we call a moratorium on beginning new words with five letters that are a synonym for fraud?)

      There. Road map to prosperity, laid out on a web message board for none to see.

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      hyjyljyj  
  • Zipit
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:33am

    The 74 in parentheses behind NASA, is unfortunately, the number of employees left, employed at the agency! They have all been forced to move into positions in community organizing and Muslim outreach

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on November 28, 2012 at 8:28am

    DoD is sooo insignificant?

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    SamIamTwo  

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