2024 Employee Report
How USDSers Identify
USDS staffers — we call ourselves USDSers — completed a voluntary survey to inform this report.
For each of the groups below, we’re including two data sets:
TOTAL includes all full-time USDS staff, including Leadership.1
LEADERSHIP includes Executive Leadership and Community of Practice Directors.
| Race and Ethnicity | 2024 | 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Leadership | Total | Leadership | ||||
| Asian | 16% | 46% | 12% | 31% | |||
| Black or African American | 9% | 8% | 10% | 31% | |||
| Hispanic/Latino | 8% | 15% | 10% | 0% | |||
| Non-Hispanic White | 69% | 38% | 70% | 38% | |||
| Gender | 2024 | 2022 | |||||
| Total | Leadership | Total | Leadership | ||||
| Male | 39% | 31% | 38% | 25% | |||
| Female | 55% | 69% | 57% | 75% | |||
| Another Gender or I Prefer Not to Answer |
7% | 0% | 6% | 0% | |||
| Cognitive and/or Physical Disability |
2024 | 2022 | |||||
| Total | Leadership | Total | Leadership | ||||
| Yes | 17% | 0% | 14% | 13% | |||
| No | 83% | 100% | 86% | 87% | |||
| Age | 2024 | 2022 | |||||
| Total | Leadership | Total | Leadership | ||||
| 20-29 | <10 | 0% | 8% | 6% | |||
| 30-39 | 55% | 62% | 49% | 38% | |||
| 40-49 | 32% | 38% | 31% | 56% | |||
| 50+ | 9% | 0% | 12% | 0% | |||
| LGBTQ+ | 2024 | 2022 | |||||
| Total | Leadership | Total | Leadership | ||||
| LGBTQ+ Identity | 17% | 8% | 19% | 13% | |||
| Non LGBTQ+ Identity | 83% | 92% | 81% | 87% | |||
How we serve
The greatest good for the greatest number of people, in the greatest need
USDSers work across multiple federal agencies, collaborating with career public servants to reimagine government systems and services the American public relies on daily. Our unofficial motto is to choose projects that serve “the greatest good, for the greatest number of people, in the greatest need.”
Since the project that led to our founding with the Department of Health and Human Services — Healthcare.gov — we’ve partnered with more than 30 agencies, including:
Who we serve
Millions of Americans depend on the digital services that USDSers design, build, or support. Through our agency partners, we’ve:
Educated parents about tax credits (Treasury / IRS)
Connected people to life-saving COVID-19 tests and vaccines (HHS / CDC)
Helped families feed their children (WIC)
Assisted with Afghan refugee resettlement (State)
Improved access to benefits claims and information for Veterans (VA)
1. There were 224 full-time USDS staff as of February 2024, including anyone who joined or left during the period of the survey. All information is self-identified as of February 2024. Individuals provided responses outside of these categories, which could not be reported due to small group sizes.