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Agency Report
Federal Aviation Administration (DOT)

Mission: To ensure the safety of civil aviation.

http://www.faa.gov/

Parent Agency

Department of Transportation - Score: 63.6

Scores and Rankings

• 2012
• Previous Years

	Score	Rank of 292
Index Score	64.5	114
Scores by Category	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Effective Leadership	51.9	219 of 290
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	46.1	196 of 290
Effective Leadership - Fairness	54.1	159 of 290
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	42.0	245 of 290
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	63.7	194 of 290
Employee Skills/Mission Match	79.4	82 of 290
Pay	66.3	53 of 290
Strategic Management	51.1	242 of 290
Teamwork	66.8	135 of 290
Training and Development	61.3	108 of 290
Work/Life Balance	63.6	118 of 290
Support for Diversity	53.2	230 of 290
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	39.9	248 of 290
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs	75.4	33 of 67
Index Scores by Demographic	Score	Rank (out of varied totals)
Female	63.5	147 of 287
Male	65.0	156 of 290
40 and over	62.0	193 of 289
Under 40	71.7	62 of 249
American Indian or Native American	54.6	36 of 49
Asian	68.9	59 of 110
Black or African-American	65.3	105 of 236
Hispanic or Latino	69.7	58 of 159
Multi-racial	65.5	23 of 100
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	74.9	4 of 40
White	64.0	169 of 290
Employees with Disabilities	58.8	112 of 205
Veterans	64.8	126 of 245
Senior Executive Service (SES)	84.0	13 of 25

	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Index Score	57.6	58.9	49.4	50.3	58.8	60.1
Scores by Category	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Effective Leadership	48.2	47.1	41.0	42.2	45.1	46.4
Effective Leadership - Empowerment	40.6	42.3	37.1	40.1	42.0	47.0
Effective Leadership - Fairness	50.6	48.8	43.2	39.6	48.4	45.1
Effective Leadership - Senior Leaders	38.6	37.2	31.4	29.5	33.3	37.9
Effective Leadership - Supervisors	60.5	58.6	51.4	57.3	56.8	55.2
Employee Skills/Mission Match	77.8	78.0	75.0	75.6	75.3	79.1
Pay	64.5	65.1	53.7	63.5
Strategic Management	48.9	47.5	45.3	47.4	48.3	55.0
Teamwork	63.6	63.6	68.7	66.4	70.7	70.8
Training and Development	57.4	58.0	53.8	52.4	57.4	58.7
Work/Life Balance	59.3	60.9	54.1	54.9	57.2	61.0
Support for Diversity	52.4	49.5	50.5	48.4	56.4	61.6
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement	37.2	38.5	35.3	32.3	36.7	35.3
Alternative Work and Employee Support Programs	75.9
Index Scores by Demographic	2011	2010	2009	2007	2005	2003
Female	65.0	61.0	58.8
Male	57.1	59.4	46.6
40 and over	57.6	58.1	50.7
Under 40	63.0	64.8	45.9
American Indian or Native American	38.0	69.6	59.7
Asian	73.3	64.1	60.7
Black or African-American	65.4	68.1	59.0
Hispanic or Latino	58.3	67.0	59.5
Multi-racial	59.5	57.1	51.3
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White	58.7	58.1	47.4
Employees with Disabilities
Veterans
Senior Executive Service (SES)

Workforce Size and Trends

Number of Employees in 2001:  49,368

Number of Employees in 2002:  53,974

Number of Employees in 2003:  48,256

Number of Employees in 2004:  46,794

Number of Employees in 2005:  43,566

Number of Employees in 2006:  43,606

Number of Employees in 2007:  44,077

Number of Employees in 2008:  44,981

Number of Employees in 2009:  46,706

Number of Employees in 2010:  47,256

Number of Employees in 2011:  47,122

Employees joined (2011):  1,128

Percentage joined (2011):  2.40%

Average joined (2005-2011):  1,761

Employees left (2011):  2,373

Percentage left (2011):  5.00%

Average left (2005-2011):  2,537

Rookie ratio (percentage of workforce with less than three years of service):  11.60%

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