Federal Workforce To Stay Roughly The Same

Although spending will rise by $200 billion under the administration's 2013 budget request, the federal workforce will stay roughly the same size. About 2,400 new people would be added to the government payroll under the Obama administration proposal. But some agencies would gain lots of people, while others will lose them. The Treasury workforce would grow by more then 3 percent, and the Securities and Exchange Commission by 15 percent. But the Broadcasting Board of Governors would lose 5 percent of its people and the Office of Personnel Management 7 percent.