What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0301 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-9.
GS-2
2
0.1%
GS-3
2
0.1%
GS-5
10
0.3%
GS-6
4
0.1%
GS-7
174
5.3%
GS-8
3
0.1%
GS-9
870
26.6%
GS-10
8
0.2%
GS-11
502
15.3%
GS-12
459
14%
GS-13
397
12.1%
GS-14
334
10.2%
GS-15
506
15.5%
3,271 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 Defense | 577 |
| Department of the Air Force | 561 |
| Department of the Army | 480 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 427 |
| Department of Agriculture | 409 |
| Department of the Navy | 284 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 240 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 157 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 1,577 |
| Florida | 115 |
| Maryland | 99 |
| Virginia | 87 |
| California | 66 |
| Georgia | 47 |
| Missouri | 47 |
| New York | 36 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 45% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 4,687 hires.