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
18
0.9%
GS-4
40
2%
GS-5
1,339
66.5%
GS-6
8
0.4%
GS-7
561
27.9%
GS-9
41
2%
GS-11
4
0.2%
GS-12
2
0.1%
2,013 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 | 2,020 |
| Department of the Army | 78 |
| Department of Agriculture | 3 |
Top states
| California | 284 |
| Wyoming | 180 |
| Alaska | 156 |
| Utah | 140 |
| Colorado | 113 |
| Washington | 112 |
| Montana | 96 |
| Massachusetts | 78 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 4% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 2,101 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Miscellaneous Occupations group (0000), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- PoliceSeries 0083 · 1,946 hires
- Correctional OfficerSeries 0007 · 1,900 hires
- Security AdministrationSeries 0080 · 1,051 hires
- Fire Protection and PreventionSeries 0081 · 816 hires
- Security GuardSeries 0085 · 625 hires
- Emergency Management SpecialistSeries 0089 · 373 hires
- GuideSeries 0090 · 331 hires
- Security Clerical and AssistanceSeries 0086 · 305 hires