Federal Employees During a Shutdown (2023)

Agencies are required to update their shutdown contingency plans every two years. The chart below summarizes data from agencies' last required shutdown plans, in 2023. 

Data comes from agency contingency plans as of October 2023. Data here reflects only the 24 CFO Act agencies. Numbers rounded to the nearest thousand.
Chart: Partnership for Public ServiceSource: Federal Agency Contingency PlansGet the data