Correctional Officer

There are 28 open federal jobs in occupational series 0007 (Correctional Officer) as of October 22, 2026; the median advertised salary is $76,739.

The government made 2,146 hires in this series over the last twelve months against 28 postings live here today — roughly 77 hires for every advertised role. Most of this hiring never reaches a job board.

Ayla Research · OPM Federal Workforce Data · through Aug 2026

2,146

Hires, 12 months

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Most common hiring grade

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Median pay at hire

Advertised here today

Where it is hiring

Top agencies

Department of Justice	2,125
Department of Interior	21

Hire counts by employing agency, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on every hire in this series — standard for law-enforcement and intelligence occupations, where naming a duty state would identify individuals — so there is no state breakdown to publish.

Related occupations

Other series in the Miscellaneous Occupations group (0000), by federal hires over the same twelve months.

Park RangerSeries 0025 · 2,024 hires
PoliceSeries 0083 · 1,944 hires
Security AdministrationSeries 0080 · 1,063 hires
Fire Protection and PreventionSeries 0081 · 831 hires
Security GuardSeries 0085 · 663 hires
Emergency Management SpecialistSeries 0089 · 454 hires
GuideSeries 0090 · 332 hires
Security Clerical and AssistanceSeries 0086 · 315 hires
Safety and Occupational Health ManagementSeries 0018 · 266 hires

Starting pay

Not reported for this series. OPM redacts annual_pay wherever a duty location is small enough to identify someone, and a few agencies record a single flat figure for every hire. Rather than publish a number that would look like a salary and behave like an artefact, we leave it out.

On the board now

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Method

Hires are OPM Federal Workforce Data accessions over the trailing twelve months of published data. Postings are live listings in the Ayla job graph carrying this occupational series. A twelve-month flow and a live stock are different measures — the comparison describes how thinly a lane is advertised, not an individual’s chances.