CBP Officer hiring landed … under plan. One month did most of it.
… officers came on board against a plan of …. October was the gap. Attrition is low, mostly retirements, and two in three officers have more than ten years of service.
Accessions by month
CBP Officer accessions by effective month. The dashed line is the plan spread evenly over the quarter. The plan did not know about the shutdown.
Source: OPM accessions, effective month, HSBD × 1895. Verified.
FEMA: the plan assumed replacements that never came
Almost nothing for months, then hiring restarts in May 2026. Ask the sidebar about FEMA.
Source: OPM accessions, all FEMA occupations. The first bar folds the quiet months; a month with no file is a month with no bar.
Two in three officers have served ten years or more
Years of service, August 2026 snapshot.
Source: length_of_service_profile, August 2026 snapshot.
Where the officers are, estimated from job ads
OPM redacts location. Every tile is imputed from where CBP advertises, so the agent says "estimated" on any state question.
Source: headcount, August 2026. … Hover Maine.
… separations in twelve months, mostly retirements
Twelve months to August 2026. The data has categories, not reasons. Ask why anyone left and the agent says so.
Source: OPM separations, HSBD × 1895, Sep 2025 to Aug 2026. Verified.
Recommended for the review
Three next steps, written by hand from the figures above. The agent can only read. Your click is stored in a decisions table the agent has no access to.
Put CBP Officer on the Strategic Hiring Committee agenda to settle whether the Q1 shortfall is a planning assumption or a hiring problem.
Request retirement eligibility projections for the officers with 20 or more years before FY2027 targets are set.
Ask CBP how many openings "Many" means on its announcements. The agent is not allowed to guess.