GAO at a Glance

For fiscal year 2015:

Address: GAO Headquarters
441 G St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20548
Offices in the following cities: Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX: Dayton, OH; Denver, CO; Huntsville, AL; Los Angeles, CA; Norfolk, VA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA.
Year GAO was founded: 1921
Telephone no.: (202) 512-3000 (employee locator)
Agency head: Gene L. Dodaro
Comptroller General of the United States
Staffing level: Approximately 3,000 employees
Budgetary resources: $551.6 million
Congressional testimony: 109
Measurable financial benefits from GAO work: $74.7 billion--a return of about $134 on every dollar invested in GAO
Recommendations to improve government operations: 1,680 (For fiscal year 2015, 79 percent of the recommendations GAO made four years earlier had been implemented.)