STAFFING SUMMARIES OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 

This document contains the overall staffing summary of the national government from FYs 2019 to 2021 as shown in Table I.

It also reflects the staffing summary of each national government agency. These staffing summaries indicate the number and salaries of permanent filled and unfilled positions.

The total number of permanent positions for FY 2021 is 1,862,543*, of which, 1,684,669 positions are filled and 177,874 items are unfilled. This includes both the civilian and the military/uniformed personnel of the Department of National Defense, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Department of Justice, Department of Transportation, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

These positions are generally categorized into the following:

1.    Key Positions - refer to executive, managerial, and chief of division or equivalent positions;
2.    Technical Positions - refer to positions directly performing the substantive and/or front-line services/functions of the agency prescribed in its mandate;
3.    Support to Technical Positions - refer to positions which provide staff or technical support functions to key and technical positions but do not directly perform front-line services/functions; and
4.    Administrative Positions - refer to positions performing general services, clerical, human resource management, financial management, records management, custodial, and other related functions.

The distribution of permanent positions by salary grade in the national government plantilla for FY 2021 is likewise indicated in Table II of this document.

* Excludes Ex-Officio positions