What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0185 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-11.
GS-9
458
27.2%
GS-11
658
39.1%
GS-12
535
31.8%
GS-13
31
1.8%
GS-14
2
0.1%
1,684 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 | 2,311 |
| Department of Defense | 98 |
| Department of the Air Force | 56 |
| Department of the Army | 42 |
| Department of Interior | 9 |
| Department of the Navy | 8 |
| Department of Justice | 6 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 4 |
Top states
| California | 185 |
| Florida | 184 |
| Texas | 159 |
| Ohio | 118 |
| New York | 102 |
| North Carolina | 100 |
| Tennessee | 87 |
| Pennsylvania | 79 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 9% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 2,535 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Social Science, Psychology, and Welfare group (0100), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- PsychologySeries 0180 · 1,503 hires
- Social ScienceSeries 0101 · 1,031 hires
- IntelligenceSeries 0132 · 540 hires
- Social Insurance AdministrationSeries 0105 · 484 hires
- Social Science Student TraineeSeries 0199 · 282 hires