Top agencies to work for in the federal government

Writing in the Washingtonian Magazine, James Michael Causey notes "don't look now, but working for the federal government is cool again." As the eldest son of FederalNewsRadio's Senior Correspondent Mike Causey, he brings a unique perspective to the magazine's "Fifty Great Places to Work". Five of the top 50 are federal entities. "I think if you could distill it down to one element," Causey told FederalNewsRadio, "it's the fact that if the individual employee feels like they're making a difference, everything trickles down from that." The Washingtonian and FederalNewsRadio conducted a survey of more than 13,000 federal employees this past August. After pouring over the results, Causey said he feels the reason the Internal Revenue Service made the grade was not the pay and benefits. Causey told the Federal Drive about another example, cut from the article for space, about the Offices of the Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives. The remaining three federal agencies on the list (in no particular order) are the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission...read more