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TABLE 1. Legislative Branch Employment: Selected Years (1945-1993)

I The table shows the number of Legislative Branch employees for selected years 1945-1993. Except where noted for 1945 and 1950, sources for employment statistics are the Workforce Analysis and Statistics Division, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Clerk of the House. Prior to 1969, statistics were published in the "Monthly Report of Federal Employment." From 1969 to 1985, OPM statistics were published in the "Federal Civilian Manpower Statistics - Monthly Release." Since then, they have been published in a bimonthly publication entitled, "Federal Civilian Workforce Statistics, Employment and Trends." These figures reflect those as of December of each year, except 1993 which reflects January statistics (the latest available). Table includes those legislative entities under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittees. Staff for joint entities are included by OPM under Senate and House.

2 Figures for Legislative Branch totals are derived by adding the subtotals of legislative branch entities in this table, except for 1945 and 1950. For these two years, data is not available for all legislative branch entities.

For 1954 to 1974, OPM does not list House and Senate employees as separate entities, only a total number for Congress. The number of Senate employees is not available from the Senate. Senate total employment is derived by subtracting the House figure (provided by the Clerk of the House) from the total OPM figure for Congress. Hence, the Senate figure is only an estimate of the actual number of employees in 1954 to 1974. From 1975 to present, each Senate figure is from OPM. Each Senate figure includes staff in personal offices, committees, and other offices (Leadership, Senate offices, U.S. Capitol Police-Senate side, etc.). No Senate data is available for Senate officers, committee employees, personal employees and other categories similar to that provided in this table for the House. For 1975 to present, the total Congress figure is derived by adding the House figure (provided by the Clerk) and the Senate figure (provided by OPM). Thus the figures in this table for both Congress subtotal and Legislative Branch total are slightly different than that provided by OPM for those two figures.

6 Figures for total Senate employment for 1945 and 1950 are not available. Interpolating growth rates between 1935 and 1947 was used to create a number for congressional employment in 1945. Data is from Vital Statistics 1991-1992, p. 26 and p. 30, by Congressional Quarterly.

6 Source is Clerk of the House of Representatives. Statistics as of December 31st of each year, except January 1993. Figures for total House employment, House personal, committee and other staff are not available for 1954, 1957 and 1959. The numbers for 1957 and 1959 are averages based on 1956, 1958, and 1960 data.

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Source is OPM for total number of Library of Congress (LOC) employees. Figures for each year reflects OPM total LOC employees minus figure provided by Congressional Research Service for CRS employees.

14 Figure was not available for 1945. Figure of 1,457 is for December 29, 1946. Source is Annual Report of Librarian of Congress, FY 1947.

16 Source is CRS. Figures are employees on payroll as of September 30 of each year, except for January, 1993. OPM does not provide CRS statistics, but only a total for Library of Congress.