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Agency Report
Food and Drug Administration (HHS)

Mission: To protect public health by assuring the safety, efficacy and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, cosmetics, radioactive materials and the U.S. food supply.

http://www.fda.gov/

Parent Agency

Department of Health and Human Services - Score: 63.3

Scores and Rankings

• 2012
• Previous Years

	Score	Rank of 292
Index Score	69.5	47
Scores by Category	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Effective Leadership	56.9	119 of 290
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	50.6	115 of 290
Effective Leadership - Fairness	50.6	220 of 290
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	52.0	107 of 290
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	68.1	88 of 290
Employee Skills/Mission Match	78.4	114 of 290
Pay	59.8	151 of 290
Strategic Management	61.0	60 of 290
Teamwork	69.1	92 of 290
Training and Development	62.5	89 of 290
Work/Life Balance	64.9	93 of 290
Support for Diversity	59.1	123 of 290
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	47.6	119 of 290
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs	75.7	31 of 67
Index Scores by Demographic	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Female	68.8	79 of 287
Male	70.9	74 of 290
40 and over	69.4	78 of 289
Under 40	71.4	71 of 249
American Indian or Native American
Asian	70.6	46 of 110
Black or African-American	68.3	73 of 236
Hispanic or Latino	66.0	79 of 159
Multi-racial	57.8	54 of 100
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White	71.8	57 of 290
Employees with Disabilities	57.7	120 of 205
Veterans	67.9	85 of 245
Senior Executive Service (SES)

	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Index Score	66.9	67.6	65.5	64.5	64.4	64.5
Scores by Category	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Effective Leadership	56.0	55.5	52.5	52.6	52.1	50.0
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	51.0	50.8	49.5	48.6	47.6	47.2
Effective Leadership - Fairness	51.3	51.4	46.4	42.8	43.5	44.1
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	51.7	49.8	46.9	46.8	47.9	45.1
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	65.1	65.7	62.6	65.3	63.0	59.5
Employee Skills/Mission Match	78.4	78.6	77.9	77.6	76.9	79.3
Pay	58.1	63.4	60.8	62.0
Strategic Management	60.1	60.0	58.8	57.5	59.3	63.0
Teamwork	68.3	66.6	71.8	72.4	69.6	69.2
Training and Development	60.7	62.0	61.0	61.6	62.5	60.2
Work/Life Balance	61.9	62.4	62.0	61.2	63.4	67.7
Support for Diversity	58.9	58.5	62.4	61.6	58.9	63.5
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	46.4	46.4	46.7	50.0	48.4	47.4
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs	77.3
Index Scores by Demographic	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Female	69.3	68.2	64.1
Male	71.5	71.1	67.2
40 and over	68.9	68.8	65.2
Under 40	74.1	71.9	66.6
American Indian or Native American
Asian	73.6	73.3	70.4
Black or African-American	69.0	67.3	64.4
Hispanic or Latino	67.2	65.9	61.2
Multi-racial	54.5	58.1	62.4
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White	72.0	70.9	66.0
Employees with Disabilities
Veterans
Senior Executive Service (SES)

Workforce Size and Trends

Number of Employees in 2001:  8,092

Number of Employees in 2002:  8,825

Number of Employees in 2003:  8,765

Number of Employees in 2004:  8,447

Number of Employees in 2005:  8,418

Number of Employees in 2006:  8,157

Number of Employees in 2007:  8,107

Number of Employees in 2008:  8,786

Number of Employees in 2009:  9,806

Number of Employees in 2010:  10,827

Number of Employees in 2011:  11,158

Employees joined (2011):  615

Percentage joined (2011):  5.50%

Average joined (2005-2011):  802

Employees left (2011):  513

Percentage left (2011):  4.60%

Average left (2005-2011):  406

Rookie ratio (percentage of workforce with less than three years of service):  18.80%

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