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The shift away from FTEs to contractors is a total drag. I remember, as a federal contractor, writing a plan for the department head that essentially said, "you need 3 FTE to do this and are contracting for 6." I then quit because I couldn't stand the BS that being a contractor entails.

V interesting, surprised by how much admin there is, would have thought it would be more like 10%.

Yeah I wonder what they count as admin staff... I'm curious to take a deeper look into the definitions!

Ooh I wish I could see contractor stats too, I'd have to imagine those numbers have been increasing over the years. I was a federal contractor at the same agency for about seven years and there were other contractors who had been there for 20+.... really makes you wonder why those aren't permanent government positions.

It seemed admin heavy to me too.

I think that there are caps on the number of federal FTEs, but I may be imagining things. Brookings has a report from 2020 that shows the number of contractors, available at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/10/07/the-true-size-of-government-is-nearing-a-record-high/