What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0340 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-13.
GS-11
1
0.5%
GS-12
2
1.1%
GS-13
71
38.6%
GS-14
52
28.3%
GS-15
58
31.5%
184 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 | 67 |
| Department of Defense | 56 |
| Department of the Navy | 54 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 40 |
| Department of the Air Force | 29 |
| Small Business Administration | 19 |
| Department of Energy | 16 |
| Department of Transportation | 15 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 112 |
| Maryland | 11 |
| Virginia | 6 |
| California | 4 |
| Texas | 4 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 |
| Mississippi | 3 |
| New York | 3 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 57% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 402 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the General Administrative, Clerical, and Office Services group (0300), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Miscellaneous Clerk and AssistantSeries 0303 · 5,779 hires
- Miscellaneous Administration and ProgramSeries 0301 · 4,775 hires
- Management and Program AnalysisSeries 0343 · 1,780 hires
- Logistics ManagementSeries 0346 · 652 hires
- Administration and Office Support Student TraineeSeries 0399 · 559 hires
- SecretarySeries 0318 · 265 hires