What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0180 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-13.
GS-11
95
19.9%
GS-12
127
26.6%
GS-13
221
46.2%
GS-14
30
6.3%
GS-15
5
1%
478 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 Veterans Affairs | 1,388 |
| Department of Defense | 60 |
| Department of Justice | 20 |
| Department of the Navy | 8 |
| Department of Transportation | 8 |
| Department of the Army | 7 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 5 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 3 |
Top states
| California | 197 |
| Florida | 109 |
| Texas | 103 |
| New York | 72 |
| Massachusetts | 66 |
| North Carolina | 49 |
| Michigan | 47 |
| Ohio | 47 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 6% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 1,503 hires.
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
- Social ScienceSeries 0101 · 1,031 hires
- IntelligenceSeries 0132 · 540 hires
- Social Insurance AdministrationSeries 0105 · 484 hires
- Social Science Student TraineeSeries 0199 · 282 hires