As the New York Times — the nation’s largest newsroom — prepares to shrink by 100 jobs, the New York Observer offers an inside look at the Times’ staffing levels. The Observer’s John Koblin reports that the Observer has seen the buyout package being offered to Times employees, and it contains these details about numbers in the newsroom:

Editors at the Book Review: 14

Reporters at Metro: 50

Size of the Opinion/Editorial Department: 49

Size of Sports Desk: 57

Critics in the Culture Department: 18

Editors at The Times Magazine: 21

Average age of the Obituaries Desk: 58 years old

Size of Thursday Styles: 7

Size of Business Desk: 85

Size of Washington Bureau: 45

Size of the Dallas Sales/Advertising Staff: 4

Size of Week in Review: 5

Total size of Art Department: 113

Size of Dining: 5

The Times will lay off staffers unless 100 accept the buyout. The Times has had one previous round of layoffs, last year, when about 100 jobs were cut but some others were added.  The Times’ news department peaked at more than 1,330 employees before last year’s cuts. The number of workers now is about 1,250 and no other American newspaper has more than about 750, the Times has reported.