The Office of Personnel Management has released the results from the 2015 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The results show that slight improvements have been made in both employee engagement and overall satisfaction over last year’s results.
The employee engagement index increased 1% over last year, going from 63% to 64%. The global satisfaction score also posted a 1% increase over 2014, going from 59% to 60%.
According to OPM director Beth Cobert, while the increases appear small, they are actually statistically significant, and she noted that many agencies experienced much larger gains, particularly the smaller agencies.
Cobert attributes the improvement in overall scores to efforts by the Obama Administration to focus on employee engagement as well as to an active response from agency leadership to respond to the feedback received from past surveys.
Cobert wrote in a blog post, “Internal engagement efforts are more likely to be successful when employee feedback is used to make workplace changes. That’s why these results are crucial. Agencies that experienced increases in employee engagement of 3 percentage points or more also saw an increase in employees’ confidence that the survey would be used to make the agency a better place to work.”
Agency Results
So which agencies scored the highest in the two categories? The tables below show the top agencies in each area.
Employee Engagement
| Large Agencies | Small Agencies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Office of Management and Budget | 78% | US Trade and Development Agency | 87% |
| Federal Trade Commission | 78% | Federal Labor Relations Authority | 86% |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 78% | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | 84% |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | 76% | Overseas Private Investment Corporation | 81% |
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 75% | Surface Transportation Board | 80% |
Global Satisfaction
| Large Agencies | Small Agencies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 76% | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | 86% |
| Office of Management and Budget | 75% | Federal Labor Relations Authority | 85% |
| Nuclear Regulator Commission | 74% | National Endowment for the Humanities | 78% |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | 74% | Surface Transportation Board | 77% |
| National Credit Union Administration | 72% | Overseas Private Investment Corporation | 75% |
The complete sets of FEVS survey data are available at UnlockTalent.gov.
How well employees are paid often plays a role in how satisfied they are with their jobs. What are the average salaries at each of the agencies listed above? These figures come from the salary data available at FedsDataCenter.com.
| Large Agencies | Small Agencies | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Headquarters | $126,291 | Surface Transportation Board | $123,395 |
| Office of Management and Budget | $124,511 | Overseas Private Investment Corporation | $120,990 |
| Federal Trade Commission | $123,458 | Federal Labor Relations Authority | $115,278 |
| Nuclear Regulator Commission | $119,746 | Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | $112,197 |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | $114,396 | Trade and Development Agency | $111,318 |
| National Credit Union Administration | $109,265 | National Endowment for the Humanities | $92,570 |
