Federal Hiring spree: Agencies adding 72,000 employees in 2015

The Federal Times reports:

Agencies bouncing back from sequestration cuts and years of hiring freezes are hiring more than 72,000 federal employees in 2015, according to figures from the Office of Management and Budget.

The non-postal federal workforce will grow from about 2.03 million federal employees to more than 2.1 million in fiscal 2015, as agencies look to fill gaps in their workforces and recover from previous losses, according to OMB.

In many cases agencies will return to 2013 levels. The Defense Department fell from 738,000 civilian employees in 2013 to 724,000 in 2014. In 2015 the agency is hiring about 20,600 employees.

The Defense Department will be using those new hires to bolster its cyber, acquisition and shipyard workforces, according to spokesman Nate Christensen.

"There are a number of areas in which the department continues to increase our civilian workforce capabilities and is hiring personnel," Christensen said.

Other areas of hiring include its sexual assault prevention, transition assistant, suicide prevention and disability evaluation workforces, he said.

The bull market in federal government hiring gains steam with "sexual assault prevention" !! As you can probably guess: hiring a government worker is more expensive than buying a handgun to defend yourself.