What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0399 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-4.
GS-1
19
5%
GS-2
37
9.8%
GS-3
75
19.8%
GS-4
191
50.4%
GS-5
33
8.7%
GS-7
18
4.7%
GS-9
6
1.6%
379 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 Air Force | 209 |
| Department of Transportation | 90 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 49 |
| Department of Commerce | 38 |
| Department of Defense | 33 |
| Department of the Navy | 31 |
| Department of Justice | 26 |
| Social Security Administration | 16 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 144 |
| Virginia | 40 |
| Maryland | 31 |
| New Jersey | 10 |
| Texas | 7 |
| Georgia | 4 |
| Oklahoma | 4 |
| Illinois | 3 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 53% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 584 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 · 5,908 hires
- Miscellaneous Administration and ProgramSeries 0301 · 4,687 hires
- Management and Program AnalysisSeries 0343 · 1,619 hires
- Logistics ManagementSeries 0346 · 626 hires
- Program ManagementSeries 0340 · 407 hires
- SecretarySeries 0318 · 253 hires