Fast Facts

 

• The government-wide Best Places to Work score is virtually unchanged (down 0.4 percent) from 2005.
  
  
• Overall, employee satisfaction increased (from 2005) in 41 percent of all federal organizations: 37 percent of large agencies, 31 percent of small agencies, and 42 percent of subcomponents.
  
  
• Among racial/ethnic groups, Asians scored highest in overall employee satisfaction, with Hispanics second.
  
  
• Women are slightly more satisfied than men, and employees under the age of 40 have higher satisfaction scores than those over 40.
  
  
• The highest-scoring Best in Class workplace categories are, in order, employee skills/mission match, teamwork, pay and benefits, and work/life balance.
  
  
• In 2007, two categories — performance-based rewards and advancement, and employee skills/mission match — had higher scores than in 2005.
  
  
• The 2007 Best Places rankings include 283 federal organizations (30 large federal agencies, 31 small agencies and 222 subcomponents) and are based on the responses of more than 221,000 employees. In 2005, the rankings covered 248 organizations and 150,000 employees.

 

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