Know what the largest federal agency is? Whooda thunk it...

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Any guesses? I was pretty suprised. Just came across it in my law book, current as of June 2002.

Edit: Answer is a couple of posts down

 

[N8Magic]

DoD?

 

[rh71]

IRS.

 

[d33pt]

i think DoD would be too broad... but i dunno what the biggest agency is...

 

[N8Magic]

Originally posted by: d33pt
i think DoD would be too broad... but i dunno what the biggest agency is...

Just guessing, I have no idea as i'm not an American.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Postal Service?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

The EPA. WTF? And on top of that they don't do enforcement (can but is handled by the DOJ usually), nor can they bring suit against an offender (again goes through the DOJ to the courts).

There are lots of others I would have guessed before them. DOD (I'm assuming that doesn't include military personel), DOJ, Interior, etc. I'm curious just how many folks it employs.

Unless it's some sort of typo, but it's in the Environmental section and plainly says "Largest federal agency"

Weird

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Postal Service?

IIRC the USPS isn't a federal agency, just federally regulated. Some sort of quasi-something or other.

 

[Brutuskend]

Social Services?

 

[BlueApple]

The EPA has 17,000 employees.

The USPS is considered a federal agency. They get federal dollars, employees get federal benefits, and they also receive federal pensions upon retirement.

USPS has a litlle under 1 mil works (800k IIRC).

The armed services has around 1.4-1.6 million. Yet they aren?t federal employees, since their pay/leave/retirement plan is totally different. Yet those that are civilian employees of the DOD are considered federal employees (they consist of about 50,000 including those under different branches of service)

EDIT:: link to a paper I did on teh EPA

Also, I just realized this, what source did you get this from? If you are defining Agency as either an independent Executive Agency, or a office/ bureau /agency inside a department, the EPA may be correct. At 17.000 employees, it may out number all other 'agencies'. This is assuming USPS is listed as a quasi-governmental agency/office/ bureau.

 

[Martin]

i would have guessed the IRS.

 

[rufruf44]

The EPA is one of the most useless agency in the planet. Can't enforce anything and can't sue anyone.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Originally posted by: BlueApple
The EPA has 17,000 employees.

The USPS is considered a federal agency. They get federal dollars, employees get federal benefits, and they also receive federal pensions upon retirement.

USPS has a litlle under 1 mil works (800k IIRC).

The armed services has around 1.4-1.6 million. Yet they aren?t federal employees, since their pay/leave/retirement plan is totally different. Yet those that are civilian employees of the DOD are considered federal employees (they consist of about 50,000 including those under different branches of service)

EDIT:: link to a paper I did on teh EPA

Also, I just realized this, what source did you get this from? If you are defining Agency as either an independent Executive Agency, or a office/ bureau /agency inside a department, the EPA may be correct. At 17.000 employees, it may out number all other 'agencies'. This is assuming USPS is listed as a quasi-governmental agency/office/ bureau.

Yeah it obviously wasn't counting enlisted military folks or postal workers (since it's the quasi thingy mabob). I'm suprised it's as small as 17,000. Comes out of Gleims bidness law book (published June 02). Sub-unit 14, section A, subsection 4.b.1 St00pid books.

 

[BlueApple]

For the 2002 fiscal year, the IRS will have approximately 100,000 employees (full-time equivalent) and a budget of $9.4 billion.

link (at the bottom)

Employ 797,795 career employees, including 48,478 employees with disabilities and 251,725 veterans.

Link (includes other facts too)