This position is located in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. The Required Documents section of this announcement identifies all documents that must be uploaded in order to be considered a complete application package. Applicants that do not submit a complete application will not receive further consideration.
Directs BLS compensation and occupational requirements programs, including the Employment Cost Index, employee benefits, and the Occupational Requirements Survey, ensuring data quality, timeliness, and relevance to public and private sector needs. Establishes policy for the Bureau's employee compensation and occupational requirements programs in conjunction with the Associate Commissioner and Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
Provides high-level management and technical guidance to divisions on technical standards, data analysis and interpretation, and adherence to Bureau policy. Develops long-range strategic plans for compensation and occupational requirements programs to ensure data collected continues to meet the evolving needs of policymakers and officials.
Makes resource allocation decisions for compensation and occupational requirements programs and works across BLS offices to coordinate efforts, streamline overlapping programs, and eliminate duplication. Serves as a member of the Bureau's executive staff, contributing to agency-wide initiatives in areas such as human resources strategy, innovation, organizational efficiency, and customer relations.
This position has a Positive Education Requirement. Applicants must have one of the following: Economist Series - 0110 A. Degree: economics, that included at least 21 semester hours in economics and 3 semester hours in statistics, accounting, or calculus. OR B. Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in economics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Mathematical Statistics Series - 1529 A.
Degree: that included 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, of which at least 12 semester hours were in mathematics and 6 semester hours were in statistics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- at least 24 semester hours of mathematics and statistics, including at least 12 hours in mathematics and 6 hours in statistics, as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Statistics Series - 1530 A.
Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics, provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics), and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences, medicine, education, or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography, history, economics, social welfare, geography, international relations, social or cultural anthropology, health sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, etc.
Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods, e.g., courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles, or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing. OR B.
Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling, (b) collecting, computing, and analyzing statistical data, and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency, dispersion, skewness, sampling error, simple and multiple correlation, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.
If you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent. An official transcript will be required if you are selected. A college or university degree generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools which meet these criteria, please refer to Department of Education Accreditation page.
Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.
If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. For further information, visit: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications | International Affairs Office (ed.gov)
This position is with Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
The posted pay range is $151661 – $228000/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-22.
This position is open under the 'Ses' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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