The Partnership for Public Service has produced the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings since 2003 using data primarily from the Office of Personnel Management's annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. To maintain previous years' scores and rankings for the public record, the historical data can be found below. While the 2025 Public Service Viewpoint Survey contains similar questions, eligibility requirements and approaches to response weighting to the FEVS, the survey results are not directly comparable and can be found on the Public Service Viewpoint dashboard.
The overall rankings are determined by the Best Places to Work employee engagement and satisfaction scores, calculated by the Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group. The index score is not a combined average of an agency’s category scores. It is calculated using a proprietary weighted formula that looks at responses to three different questions in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The more the question predicts intent to remain, the higher the weighting.
