Permanent versus Other One way to categorize employment is to separate Permanent employment from Other employment.
Most Federal employees are permanent employees.
Their appointment does not have a termination date. The Forest Service has approximately 29,500 permanent employees. These include, but are not limited to, temporary, summer, seasonal, student employment programs, and term appointments. This date could be a couple months after the appointment or as long as 4 years. In the Forest Service, Other employment typically is about 3,000 employees in January and grows to over 15,000 employees in July.