NAPA'S STATEMENT RE RATIO OF EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION TO TOTAL EMPLOYEES

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• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: October 19, 1979
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IVRIORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM: Don I. Wortman
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: NAPA's Statement re Ratio of Employees Involved
in Personnel Administration to Total Employees
1. NAPA claims that CIA's ratio of employees involved in
personnel administration to total employees is 1 in 16, compared to
"other federal agencies.which are well staffed" which have a ratio
of 1 in 60 or more. The formula and data used in arriving at the
CIA ratio is fraught with error and inconsistency. NAPA includes
all Personnel careerists and the entire Office of Training (excluding
in calculating their ratio, and this is patently unfair. 14y own
gross calculation says that a fair CIA ratio is at least 1 in 39, and
when I compare what the CIA personnel system has achieved with other
agencies around town, I say the accomplishment is well worth it. (U)
2. In arriving at my ra .o of 1 in 39, I am deleting
of the Office of Training and Office of Personnel posi
being nonapplicable because they represent the satisfaction of unique
CIA responsibilities not found elsewhere in government. These are:
(a) CIA must conduct its own recruitment and position
classification systems. It cannot rely on OPM.
(b) Because of cover requirements, CIA administers an
extensive array of benefit systems such as J
and cannot rely on existing services supplie y PM.
(c) Much of OTR's efforts relate to tradecraft training
and other specialized needs of this Agency which for
other agencies would be purchased on the open market
and never show up in federal employment work-years, (U)
3. I go on to eliminate 40 work-years of panel effort and 55
non-Personnel work-years because both are directly related to an
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organization that operates on a worldwide basis and which must do so
almost entirely in a secure manner. In summarizing the above:
Personnel Careerists
Office of Training (1)
Panels (in work-years)
Non-Personnel Careerists Performing
Personnel Functions in Components
Total
In arriving at the ratio of 1 in 16, NAPA divided their estimate of
I I which evidently was the total of all
u -time permanent personnel on board at the time of their estimate.
I suggest, however, that we must use as a base the total number of
personnel in CIA who are administered--which includes all temporary/
part-time personnel in addition to just full-time, -permanent eople.
Using-1979 numbers, I suggest that there were a total of people
being administered by our personnel system--of which I suggest that
=work-years are comparable with a "well-staffed" federal agency.
The result is a CIA ratio of 1 in 39, not 1 in 16 as NAPA suggests.(S)
4. I suspect that further analysis would narrow the gap between
the 1 to 39 and 1 to 60 even more. I do not suspect we would close
that gap because I do think we pay a justified price for what I would
consider to be a superior personnel system. (U)
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