There is now a public list showing the names, agencies and salaries of more than 9,000 Trump administration officials and career federal leaders currently working across government.

The Office of Personnel Management on Wednesday updated the PLUM book — a digital employment roster listing virtually all senior federal leaders governmentwide. The updated list uses agency data up to June 30, making it the most in-depth public source of the Trump administration’s political appointees to date.

The newly updated list contains 9,151 entries with space for each official’s name, agency, title and pay rate, as well as their geographic location and how long they have been working for the government — although some of the data is still missing or outdated.

“Individual agencies are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, reliability and up-to-date status of the information listed,” OPM wrote on its website.

Prior to the July 9 update, the most recent iteration of the PLUM book dated back to March 2024, capturing a roster of political appointees and career senior leaders from the Biden administration. Up until Wednesday, the PLUM book page on OPM’s website exhibited an “under maintenance” notice.

“As the Trump administration makes a lot of changes in the government, as a lot of workers are moved out or put into new roles, it’s critical that there’s visibility into who the senior decision-makers are and who the accountable officials are,” said Jason Briefel, director of policy and outreach at the Senior Executives Association. “There’s been very little transparency and visibility into the appointees and officials working for the Trump administration below the level of the cabinet officers and officials who have gone through Senate confirmation.”

The PLUM book has been routinely published for years, dating back to the Eisenhower administration. It’s an effort to increase transparency into the federal government. The list of senior leaders is meant to provide a snapshot in time of who is leading which office at each agency and department.

Under law, OPM is tasked with collecting agency employment data and publishing a list of every federal position that is appointed by the President, Senate-confirmed or a part of the Senior Executive Service. OPM uses its Executive and Schedule C System — a digital data application — to collect and maintain agency information on all senior leadership positions.

A modernized PLUM book

Up until a few years ago, OPM was only required to refresh the PLUM book once every four years. The infrequency of the list’s updates meant that by the time it was made public, parts of the PLUM book were already outdated. The information was only up to date at the time OPM was compiling and publishing the list, not a real-time account detailing when appointees come and go or move into new positions.

In the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers included a provision requiring the PLUM book to be digitized and updated more frequently, in an effort to bring more transparency and accountability into government.

The legislation required OPM to begin updating the list at least once per year, rather than every four years. OPM was also tasked with designing and launching a digital platform to host the PLUM book online, rather than relying on a single, static document as it had in the past.

OPM launched the updated PLUM book webpage in December 2023. The platform now lets users search for specific names and filter by agency or component.

But even after the recent updates, there are often still delays and gaps in each new iteration of the PLUM book. The Government Accountability Office has said there is no single data source on political appointees that is timely, accurate, comprehensive and available to the public. The updated PLUM book fills in some of those information gaps, but there is still room for improvement, according to SEA’s Briefel.

“There are ways that this can continue to be built upon. But there’s no question about whether the data can be updated more frequently. It becomes a question of whether the policymakers will allow that to happen,” Briefel said. “These people are getting paid $200,000 — sometimes more, sometimes a little less. But it’s taxpayer money, and the public has a right to know.”

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