What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0025 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-3
16
0.8%
GS-4
26
1.4%
GS-5
1,279
66.6%
GS-6
8
0.4%
GS-7
544
28.3%
GS-9
41
2.1%
GS-11
5
0.3%
GS-12
2
0.1%
1,921 General Schedule hires. Hires under other pay plans (wage grade, senior executive, and the excepted schedules) are not shown here.
Where it is hiring
Top agencies
| Department of Interior | 1,966 |
| Department of the Army | 55 |
| Department of Agriculture | 3 |
Top states
| California | 244 |
| Wyoming | 179 |
| Alaska | 155 |
| Utah | 127 |
| Colorado | 112 |
| Washington | 112 |
| Montana | 95 |
| Massachusetts | 78 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 3% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 2,024 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Miscellaneous Occupations group (0000), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Correctional OfficerSeries 0007 · 2,146 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