What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0132 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-11.
GS-5
1
0.4%
GS-7
16
6.4%
GS-9
27
10.8%
GS-11
86
34.5%
GS-12
34
13.7%
GS-13
49
19.7%
GS-14
28
11.2%
GS-15
8
3.2%
249 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 the Air Force | 227 |
| Department of the Army | 132 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 54 |
| Department of Justice | 33 |
| Department of the Navy | 28 |
| Department of Defense | 18 |
| Department of Treasury | 16 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 8 |
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 Social Science, Psychology, and Welfare group (0100), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Social WorkSeries 0185 · 2,535 hires
- PsychologySeries 0180 · 1,503 hires
- Social ScienceSeries 0101 · 1,031 hires
- Social Insurance AdministrationSeries 0105 · 484 hires
- Social Science Student TraineeSeries 0199 · 282 hires