Best Places to Work Agency Rankings

The overall rankings are determined by the Best Places to Work employee engagement score, 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.

  • I recommend my organization as a good place to work. (Q. 40)
  • Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your job? (Q. 69)
  • Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your organization? (Q. 71)

Click on the links below to view an agency’s full report. Click on the column headings to sort by rank, agency name, score or change.

Rank Agency 2019 2018 Change (2018‑19)
1 U.S. International Trade Commission 85.8 85.7 0.1 
2 Farm Credit Administration 81.1 81.1 0.0 
3 Peace Corps 80.7 79.8 0.9 
4 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 79.6 78.3 1.3 
5 National Endowment for the Arts 78.8 72.6 6.2 
6 Office of Management and Budget 76.3 75.0 1.3 
7 Office of Special Counsel 76.0 66.1 9.9 
8 National Transportation Safety Board 75.4 77.8 -2.4 
9 Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service 73.8 87.2 -13.4 
10 Federal Maritime Commission 72.3 74.4 -2.1 
11 Merit Systems Protection Board 70.7 64.2 6.5 
12 National Endowment for the Humanities 67.3 74.9 -7.6 
13 Federal Housing Finance Agency 66.7 65.6 1.1 
14 Surface Transportation Board 65.8 64.0 1.8 
15 National Gallery of Art 64.2 66.1 -1.9 
16 Office of the U.S. Trade Representative 64.0 57.8 6.2 
17 Millennium Challenge Corporation 63.8 69.1 -5.3 
18 Railroad Retirement Board 63.6 63.1 0.5 
19 Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board 62.5 61.9 0.6 
20 Overseas Private Investment Corporation 61.8 73.6 -11.8 
21 Selective Service System 61.3 44.2 17.1 
22 Commodity Futures Trading Commission 60.9 58.3 2.6 
23 Consumer Product Safety Commission 60.6 66.1 -5.5 
24 International Boundary and Water Commission 58.1 63.2 -5.1 
25 Federal Election Commission 49.7 49.4 0.3 
26 Export-Import Bank of the United States 45.9 36.8 9.1 
27 Federal Labor Relations Authority 41.8 41.6 0.2 
28 Corporation for National and Community Service 39.3 66.3 -27.0 
Quartile Key
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