What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0303 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-1
4
0.1%
GS-2
13
0.5%
GS-3
38
1.3%
GS-4
726
25.1%
GS-5
1,036
35.9%
GS-6
285
9.9%
GS-7
722
25%
GS-8
53
1.8%
GS-9
11
0.4%
2,888 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 Commerce | 2,913 |
| Department of Justice | 960 |
| Department of Treasury | 587 |
| Department of Interior | 332 |
| Department of the Air Force | 267 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 266 |
| Department of the Army | 223 |
| Department of Defense | 161 |
Top states
| Texas | 495 |
| California | 316 |
| Utah | 235 |
| Illinois | 216 |
| Florida | 207 |
| Washington, D.C. | 204 |
| Virginia | 178 |
| New York | 166 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 26% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 5,908 hires.