Skip to main content
Open main menu
The Government Hiring Report →
Federal occupational series 0318

Secretary

There are 22 open federal jobs in occupational series 0318 (Secretary) as of October 22, 2026; the median advertised salary is $58,441.

The government made 265 hires in this series over the last twelve months against 22 postings live here today — roughly 12 hires for every advertised role. Most of this hiring never reaches a job board.

265
Hires, 12 months
GS-6
Most common hiring grade
$52,977
Median pay at hire
22
Advertised here today

What grade the government hires at

Every General Schedule hire into series 0318 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-6.

GS-5 30 16.9%
GS-7 33 18.6%
GS-8 20 11.3%
GS-9 14 7.9%
GS-10 5 2.8%

177 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 Justice90
Department of Defense62
Department of the Air Force49
Department of Veterans Affairs27
Department of the Navy24
Department of Homeland Security4
Department of State2
Department of Health and Human Services2
Top states
Texas13
West Virginia6
Illinois6
North Carolina6
Colorado6
South Carolina6
Florida6
Kentucky5

Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 56% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 265 hires.

Related occupations

Other series in the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services group (0300), by federal hires over the same twelve months.