Share of FBI employees by role and gender U.S. 2024

As of April 8, 24.4 percent of special agents in the FBI were female in 2024, compared to 75.6 percent who were male. However, more women than men held careers in the FBI as professional staff or intelligence analysts. In that year, 45.9 percent of the entire FBI workforce was female.

The FBI

The FBI is the United States government agency that deals with national security and law enforcement. As the principal agency that deals with law enforcement, it is primarily focused on domestic issues. The FBI focuses on protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, protecting civil rights, and protecting the United States from foreign espionage and cyber-attacks. The FBI is broken down into six branches, each lead by an executive director.

FBI findings

As one of the most important agencies in the United States, it was estimated that the FBI spent over 8.9 billion U.S. dollars on all programs in 2020. With the goal to protect Americans domestically, it sees all different types of crime. In 2023, assault and drug and narcotic offenses were the leading reasons for arrest by the FBI. Furthermore, hate crimes have been on the rise lately in the United States, with race, ethnicity, and/or ancestry being the leading reason for hate crime arrests nationwide.