Agency Performance Dashboards

The Agency Performance Dashboards, developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, provide an overview of the workforce, employee experience, budgetary resources and information-technology maturity of 33 major federal agencies, each with more than 1,000 employees. (See Data Coverage for more details.) The dashboards offer a snapshot of critical data points that illustrate the organizational health of specific agencies and the executive branch as a whole, helping agency leaders, congressional offices, the media and other stakeholders identify areas for further focus.

Clear, accessible and reliable data is central to building a more effective government. The dashboards’ data—including employee numbers, locations, demographics and perceptions of agency performance—can inform federal leaders’ management goals and decisions as well as help new political appointees learn about their agency. The dashboards also can promote accountability, enabling members of the media and the public to easily find and understand information related to agency operations that otherwise resides in harder-to-find datasets on government websites.

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Data Coverage

The data in these dashboards represents full-time, nonseasonal, permanent civilian employees of the executive branch as of February 2024. Unless otherwise noted, this includes the career members of the Senior Executive Service. The data does not include employees of the legislative or judicial branches, the intelligence community, the U.S. Postal Service, foreign service officers or locally employed staff within the State Department, or uniformed military personnel. Contractors also are not included.

Data on employees’ intention to leave within a year, the employee experience with performance management, and employee perceptions of how an agency handles poor performers comes from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, a government-wide annual employee survey administered by the Office of Personnel Management. We will update these sections, along with the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® data, annually.

The number of employees, their location and occupation, and other demographic data come from FedScope, the online Office of Personnel Management tool that offers in-depth information about the federal workforce. The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act grade comes from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. We will update these datapoints quarterly.

The budgetary resources data come from USASpending.gov, a federal website that provides an interactive way to explore agency funding, and will be updated monthly.

The political appointee data comes from the Political Appointee Tracker, a collaboration of the Partnership and The Washington Post, and is confirmed or updated every week on Monday.

The Agency Performance Dashboards are just one of many of the Partnership’s resources that shed light on how government works—and how it can improve. Related resources that provide applicable data and insights include our Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings, Political Appointee Tracker, Fed Figures, and Public Trust in Government Data Dashboard. See also the Partnership’s research reports, blogs and podcasts.

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Agency Performance Dashboards