US Office of Personnel Management

Recruiting, retaining, and honoring a world-class workforce to serve the American people.

OPM works in several broad categories to recruit, retain and honor a world-class workforce for the American people. They manage Federal job announcement postings at USAJOBS.gov, and set policy on governmentwide hiring procedures. They conduct background investigations for prospective employees and security clearances across government, with hundreds of thousands of cases each year. They uphold and defend the merit systems in Federal civil service, making sure that the Federal workforce uses fair practices in all aspects of personnel management. They manage pension benefits for retired Federal employees and their families. They also administer health and other insurance programs for Federal employees and retirees. They provide training and development programs and other management tools for Federal employees and agencies. In many cases, they take the lead in developing, testing and implementing new governmentwide policies that relate to personnel issues. Altogether, they work to make the Federal government America’s model employer for the 21st century.