Federal employment is down 328,000 jobs, 10.9%, since January 2025 (September 2026)
BLS counted 2,682,000 federal employees in September 2026, against 3,010,000 in January 2025, when DOGE's executive order was signed: down 328,000, 10.9%. The Partnership for Public Service counts 214,000 departures as of August 18, 2026. Civic Forecast calculation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics series CES9091000001, seasonally adjusted: the latest month minus January 2025.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.