This data asset was created in response to House Report 117-401, which stated, "The Committee directs the USAID Administrator, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees, not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, on USAID's workforce data that includes disaggregated demographic data and other information regarding the diversity of the workforce of USAID. Such report shall include the following data to the maximum extent practicable and permissible by law: 1) demographic data of USAID workforce disaggregated by grade or grade-equivalent; 2) assessment of agency compliance with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Management Directive 715; and 3) data on the overall number of individuals who are part of the workforce, including all U.S. Direct Hires, personnel under personal services contracts, and Locally Employed staff at USAID. The report shall also be published on a publicly available website of USAID in a searchable database format." This data asset fulfills the final part of this requirement, to publish the data in a searchable database format.

The data are compiled from USAID's 2021 MD-715 report, available at https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/independent-offices/office-civil-rights/md-715-reports. The original data source is the system National Finance Center Insight owned by the Treasury Department. This dataset reports demographic data for the USAID workforce for fiscal year 2021.