The percentage of Hispanic employees is increasing at all levels of the federal government, the Office of Personnel Management concludes in a new report.
According to the report, Hispanics in the Federal Government: A Statistical Profile, Hispanics represented 6.4 percent of the permanent federal workforce in 1998, up slightly more than one percent from a decade earlier, the report said.
Hispanics are also increasingly moving into the executive ranks. In 1993, 1.8 percent of Hispanic federal employees were at senior pay levels. In 1998 that figure had increased to 2.8 percent.
In recent years, OPM has targeted Hispanics for increased representation in the federal workforce with a governmentwide strategic plan and its own effort to recruit and promote Hispanics at OPM. Hispanic employment in OPM's Senior Executive Service ranks jumped from 2.6 percent in 1998 to 10.5 percent in July of this year.
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