• Director's Message »
• About This Report »

Workforce at a Glance

• Workforce Profile »
• Geographic Distribution of Workforce »

Workforce Profile

• Number of Employees »
• Workforce Distribution by State Agency »
• Types of Employment »
• Management Profile »
• Washington Management Service »
• Workforce Diversity »
• Workforce Age »

Compensation

• Workforce Annual Salary »
• Overtime Compensation »

Talent Acquisition

• Balance of New Hires »
• Internal Movement »
• New Hire Profile »

Retention

• Length of Service »
• State Workforce Turnover »
• Turnover - Resignation »
• Turnover - Retirement »
• Layoff Activity »

Employee Performance Management

• Performance Planning and Evaluation »
• Recognition »
• Corrective and Disciplinary Action »

Employee Satisfaction

• Washington State Employee Survey »

Director's Message

I am pleased to present the 2009 State Workforce Report as a tool to help inform discussions about Washington State government employees. The report provides a snapshot of the executive branch workforce as of June 30, 2009, as well as recent trends.

It contains information such as: number of state employees (overall and per agency), types of state employment, workforce age and diversity data, management profile, salary trends, hiring and turnover trends, performance management progress, employee satisfaction data, and more.

I believe that a key role of the Department of Personnel (DOP), as the central human resource agency, is to ensure that leaders have easy access to current and credible data to make informed decisions about workforce issues.

The 2009 State Workforce Report is an important step in fulfilling this goal. It goes hand-in-hand with the annual enterprise-wide Human Resource Management Report, which is a roll-up dashboard describing agencies’ progress against key workforce management performance measures. Together, these two reports provide a wealth of information for setting priorities, making improvements, and monitoring accountability.

Our new website (www.dop.wa.gov) includes a Strategic HR section dedicated to providing easy access to these reports and the most current workforce data available. In addition, this site contains HR best practices and benchmark information from private industry, other states, and across state agencies. It also includes the latest research reports from the National Association of State Personnel Executives (NASPE), the Pew Center, and other premier research organizations.

Washington State’s use of data to improve workforce management practices has drawn national attention in recent years. In 2007, Governing magazine reported that Washington scored an A- in the people category of the Pew Research Center’s Grading the States report – one of the top four states. We hope to continue and improve upon this trend in the future.

The 2009 State Workforce report is the first such report in nearly two decades. It is our intention to update and produce this report on an annual basis.


Respectfully Submitted,

Eva Santos

Director, Department of Personnel