4.2: Staff Retention
Ensure retention of highly qualified staff in mission critical positions. Other Information:
There is no issue more critical to the Department’s continued effective functioning than that of current and projected turnover
in mission critical positions, and the domino effect it precipitates. Separation projections are high among economists, fish
biologists, mathematicians, statisticians, meteorologists, and engineers. By 2007, 71 percent of the Department’s existing
Senior Executive Service corps and 39 percent of the senior staff in grades 13 through 15 will become eligible for retirement.
Departures from the Department due to retirement represent approximately 21 percent of overall turnover. Transfers to other
federal agencies represent approximately 23 percent of separations and resignations comprised another 49 percent. These conditions
could produce an unprecedented drain on the Department’s institutional memory and its capacity to provide mature leadership
to the next generation of employees.
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