OPM's budget is the federal retirement system. Its own operating budget is a rounding error beside it.

Office of the Chief Financial Officer · Office of Personnel Management

OPM is the textbook trust-fund agency. Its reported budget authority is dominated by mandatory, non-program money — the federal retirement and insurance trust funds it administers: annuities from the Civil Service Retirement & Disability Fund, health benefits through FEHB, and life insurance through FEGLI. That money is kept strictly apart here from OPM's discretionary operating budget — its Salaries & Expenses plus a Congressionally-limited administrative transfer. FY2025 actuals, FY2026, and the FY2027 request. The operating side recomputes to the dollar against its source; the trust-fund benefit payments are never shown as program spending.

FY2027 trust-fund benefit outlays

mandatory · annuities, health, life — not program spending

FY2027 discretionary appropriation

OPM's own operating budget (S&E + transfer) →

Trust-fund outlays ÷ discretionary

the benefits dwarf the operating budget

Discretionary share of total budget authority

of total OPM BA

See something to improve, want to request a change, or have a question? Leave a note — this monitor is built in public and we iterate live.