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Agency Report
Patent and Trademark Office (Commerce)

Mission: To promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries.

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Parent Agency

Department of Commerce - Score: 67.9

Scores and Rankings

• 2012
• Previous Years

	Score	Rank of 292
Index Score	80.3	5
Scores by Category	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Effective Leadership	68.8	10 of 290
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	62.6	11 of 290
Effective Leadership - Fairness	63.5	37 of 290
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	66.7	9 of 290
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	76.8	8 of 290
Employee Skills/Mission Match	81.8	21 of 290
Pay	69.6	28 of 290
Strategic Management	71.8	2 of 290
Teamwork	73.8	29 of 290
Training and Development	73.0	19 of 290
Work/Life Balance	72.3	16 of 290
Support for Diversity	71.4	10 of 290
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	65.1	2 of 290
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs	85.8	4 of 67
Index Scores by Demographic	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Female	80.8	7 of 287
Male	82.4	7 of 290
40 and over	80.4	9 of 289
Under 40	84.0	8 of 249
American Indian or Native American	70.3	3 of 49
Asian	83.7	2 of 110
Black or African-American	81.1	3 of 236
Hispanic or Latino	85.2	2 of 159
Multi-racial	78.8	3 of 100
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	71.7	8 of 40
White	81.9	5 of 290
Employees with Disabilities	70.2	18 of 205
Veterans	77.0	10 of 245
Senior Executive Service (SES)	88.0	7 of 25

	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Index Score	74.1	69.6	64.3	57.2	56.8	63.0
Scores by Category	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Effective Leadership	62.3	58.2	55.5	51.1	46.8	47.8
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	54.3	51.6	48.8	45.1	38.9	40.7
Effective Leadership - Fairness	58.9	54.2	49.6	41.6	42.5	44.2
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	59.1	52.9	49.8	43.3	37.7	40.1
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	71.1	68.7	67.5	66.7	61.9	60.9
Employee Skills/Mission Match	80.1	77.3	76.1	74.3	75.1	77.4
Pay	66.1	69.2	65.0	51.3
Strategic Management	66.5	61.7	64.6	60.5	60.9	65.9
Teamwork	66.5	65.3	69.3	69.5	65.6	66.2
Training and Development	67.7	62.7	62.5	58.0	54.9	60.5
Work/Life Balance	65.4	62.8	61.0	59.8	56.6	61.5
Support for Diversity	65.0	59.6	63.9	60.1	62.4	67.2
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	58.4	53.9	53.8	47.1	49.9	46.8
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs	88.1
Index Scores by Demographic	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Female	78.3	72.0	62.9
Male	78.5	72.1	65.1
40 and over	77.5	70.0	64.6
Under 40	80.0	74.1	64.1
American Indian or Native American
Asian	79.9	72.3	64.0
Black or African-American	78.9	73.1	68.7
Hispanic or Latino	80.9	72.4	66.8
Multi-racial	72.7	71.1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White	78.7	71.9	65.0
Employees with Disabilities
Veterans
Senior Executive Service (SES)

Workforce Size and Trends

Number of Employees in 2001:  6,169

Number of Employees in 2002:  6,706

Number of Employees in 2003:  6,543

Number of Employees in 2004:  6,568

Number of Employees in 2005:  7,132

Number of Employees in 2006:  7,986

Number of Employees in 2007:  8,717

Number of Employees in 2008:  9,371

Number of Employees in 2009:  9,520

Number of Employees in 2010:  9,287

Number of Employees in 2011:  9,953

Employees joined (2011):  911

Percentage joined (2011):  9.20%

Average joined (2005-2011):  920

Employees left (2011):  319

Percentage left (2011):  3.20%

Average left (2005-2011):  516

Rookie ratio (percentage of workforce with less than three years of service):  14.40%

Demographics source: FedScope, U.S. Office of Personnel Management