According to a Federal Times report from The Partnership of Public Service and Deloitte, law enforcement may be among the best jobs in the federal government.
The report, which analyzed data from the larger “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” found that the FBI was the highest scoring agency for law enforcement employees.
Overall, satisfaction at law enforcement agencies was higher than for government-wide employees, outscoring the government median 62.2 to 58.1.
Related: Read the report
But there remains a stark divide between the success of component agencies within the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security when it comes to employee engagement.
Of the 12 law enforcement agencies studied in the report, only the DHS’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center was in the top half of the rankings. Inversely, the only DOJ agency to not rank in the top 50 percent was the Federal Prison System/Bureau of Prisons, which scored less than two points behind FLETC.
Four DHS agencies also ranked at the bottom of the study, with the Secret Service as the lowest scored at 33.4 points. The Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement ranked above the Secret Service. The Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ranked seventh.
The report comes at a time when Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson is out to improve the overall morale at the agency, recently crafting a new mission statement focused on unifying its various components.