What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0203 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-4
4
1%
GS-5
144
35%
GS-6
57
13.8%
GS-7
184
44.7%
GS-8
20
4.9%
GS-9
2
0.5%
GS-10
1
0.2%
412 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 Army | 144 |
| Department of the Navy | 93 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 75 |
| Department of the Air Force | 67 |
| Department of Defense | 17 |
| Department of Justice | 7 |
| Department of Agriculture | 5 |
| Department of Energy | 4 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 12 |
| Maryland | 8 |
| Minnesota | 7 |
| Vermont | 5 |
| Kansas | 3 |
| Missouri | 3 |
| Oregon | 3 |
| Massachusetts | 2 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 88% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 421 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Human Resources Management group (0200), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Human Resources ManagementSeries 0201 · 1,247 hires