IRS Employee Count Reaches Decade-High 90,000 Employees

IRS is on a hiring spree with employee count crossing a 10-year record.

A detail of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building is seen in the Federal Triangle section of Washington, on April 27, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Hiring at the IRS has risen by more than 13 percent over the past year as the number of employees at the agency reaches a level unseen in over a decade.

The IRS is close to reaching 90,000 full-time employees, the agency’s Commissioner Danny Werfel told reporters Tuesday, according to the Federal News Network. According to the IRS’ 2022 Data Book (pdf), the agency employed 79,070 full-time equivalent positions in 2022. As such, the current employment of 90,000 workers represents a 13.79 percent increase in staffing in roughly a year.