Staffing[edit]
USAID's global U.S. "direct-hire" staff—those with career contracts—include Civil Service staff in Washington as well as U.S. Foreign Service Officers. The size of this staff was about 3,900 in 2012. An additional 400 U.S. staff work under contracts for shorter periods, typically two to three years. (By comparison, the State Department's U.S. workforce currently numbers about 19,000.
USAID's host-country staff, who normally receive one-year contracts that are renewed annually, make up the majority of the Agency's global workforce (57% in 2009)