What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0189 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-1
3
1.2%
GS-3
66
26.7%
GS-4
52
21.1%
GS-5
74
30%
GS-6
38
15.4%
GS-7
14
5.7%
247 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 | 220 |
| Department of the Air Force | 37 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 9 |
| Department of the Army | 2 |
| Department of the Navy | 2 |
Top states
| New York | 80 |
| New Jersey | 65 |
| Massachusetts | 34 |
| California | 12 |
| Virginia | 6 |
| Wyoming | 6 |
| Maryland | 6 |
| Indiana | 6 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 15% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 270 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 · 2,444 hires
- PsychologySeries 0180 · 1,543 hires
- Social ScienceSeries 0101 · 1,005 hires
- IntelligenceSeries 0132 · 571 hires
- Social Science Student TraineeSeries 0199 · 268 hires