1998 Report of the Forest Service

Table 49--Number of paid employees by occupational category for selected fiscal years 1/

Occupation

1998 2/

1997

1996

1995

1994

Professional

11,330

11,038

11,327

11,441

11,830

Administrative

4,610

4,512

4,519

4,627

4,330

Technical

19,145

19,134

20,172

21,970

23,094

Clerical

2,881

2,821

3,050

3,234

3,312

Other

515

195

312

353

558

Wage System

2,180

2,073

2,042

2,060

2,446

Total

40,661

39,773

41,422

43,685

45,570

Full-time equivalents (FTE's) 3/

34,798

36,311

37,205

38,330

40,612

1/ The above data include permanent, summer, seasonal, cooperative education students, stay-in-school, and many

other types of employees. These data do not include employees excluded from agency ceilings, such as volunteers

(who are not paid salary), the Senior Community Service Employment Program (who are paid by the Department

of Labor), and employees in special employment categories.

2/ Includes special employment categories

3/ One Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) equals 2,080 paid hours of employment. These data include emergency FTE's.

Table 50--Number of paid employees by type of appointment for selected fiscal years

Type of Appointment

1998 1/

1997

1996

1995

1994

Permanent 2/

28,170

29,558

30,347

30,676

30,978

Nonpermanent 3/

12,491

10,215

11,075

13,009

14,592

Total

40,661

39,773

41,422

43,685

45,570

1/ Includes special employment categories

2/ Permanent are those employees who have career or career-conditional appointments.

3/ Non permanent employees who count in agency ceilings, such as summer, temmporary, excepted, term, seasonal and

similar types of employees. these data do not include volunteers (who are not paid salary), and the Senior Community

Service Employment Program (who are paid by the Department of Labor), and employees in special employment categories.

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