FERS Retirement Planning by Federal Agency
Every agency has its quirks: how it handles military service credit, which buyout authorities apply, whether special provisions cover your job series. Pick your agency to see how PlanWell helps.
Agencies we work with
Department of Defense
With 750,000+ civilian employees across every state and 80+ countries, DoD is the largest civilian employer in the federal government. The rules are the same FE...
See agency pageDepartment of Veterans Affairs
The VA is the largest healthcare employer in the federal government, with over 400,000 civilian employees across 1,200 facilities nationwide. Your retirement pi...
See agency pageDepartment of Homeland Security
DHS is a patchwork of components, each with its own mission, pay structure, and retirement considerations. Whether you are a CBP officer with special provisions...
See agency pageU.S. Postal Service
USPS is one of the most complex retirement environments in the federal workforce. With approximately 530,000 career employees (and 640,000+ total workforce incl...
See agency pageInternal Revenue Service
IRS employees spend their careers helping enforce the tax code, which makes it quietly ironic that many of them have not optimized the tax treatment of their ow...
See agency pageDepartment of Justice
DOJ has the most concentrated population of law enforcement special-provision employees in the federal government. FBI agents, DEA investigators, ATF special ag...
See agency pageDepartment of State
The State Department has two distinct retirement systems running simultaneously: FERS for civil service employees and the Foreign Service Pension System (FSPS) ...
See agency pageNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA civil servants are among the most credentialed and well-paid employees in the federal government. Aerospace engineers, physicists, and research scientists ...
See agency pageDepartment of Health and Human Services
HHS spans CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS, HRSA, SAMHSA, and more, and its workforce ranges from epidemiologists with NIH salaries north of $200,000 to benefits examiners pr...
See agency pageSocial Security Administration
SSA employees spend their careers explaining Social Security benefits to the public, which creates a specific paradox: most of them understand Social Security b...
See agency pageEnvironmental Protection Agency
EPA has a highly educated workforce with deep institutional knowledge, and its employees tend to stay long. The average EPA tenure is among the highest across m...
See agency pageDepartment of Energy
The Department of Energy has a small federal workforce and a massive contractor workforce. If you are a federal employee at DOE, you are in FERS with the same r...
See agency pageDepartment of Agriculture
USDA is one of the most geographically dispersed agencies in the federal government, with employees in almost every county in the country. Food Safety and Inspe...
See agency pageDepartment of Commerce
Commerce is a more varied agency than its size suggests. NOAA meteorologists and oceanographers, Census Bureau statisticians who surge once a decade for the dec...
See agency pageDepartment of the Interior
The Department of the Interior manages more public land than any other agency in the federal government, and its employees often work in locations so remote tha...
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Free 3-hour FERS workshop
Whatever your agency, the retirement math is the same. Come learn it.