growth

FTE Growth, Year over Year

The percentage change in full-time-equivalent employees from one year earlier.

As of Q1 2026FDICNUMEMPSource retrieved 2026-08-01

National median

+0.70%

Middle half

−1.92%+5.88%

Direction

Context dependent

What it means

Why this metric matters

Annual staffing growth shows whether labor capacity is scaling with the franchise. When FTE growth persistently outruns revenue, efficiency usually weakens.

How it is calculated

(fte_employees / NULLIF(lag(fte_employees, 4), 0) - 1) * 100

Source field: NUMEMP. Not annualized.

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National distribution

Across active reporting banks

4,220 observations · Q1 2026

10th percentile

−6.90%

25th percentile

−1.92%

Median

+0.70%

75th percentile

+5.88%

90th percentile

+13.18%

Quartile markers use every reported value. For readability, values outside the first and ninety-ninth percentiles are collected into the two end bars; rankings retain the exact reported values.

Reported extremes