What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0401 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-5
37
12.1%
GS-7
76
24.9%
GS-9
66
21.6%
GS-11
40
13.1%
GS-12
40
13.1%
GS-13
22
7.2%
GS-14
17
5.6%
GS-15
7
2.3%
305 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 Homeland Security | 99 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 93 |
| Department of Agriculture | 88 |
| Department of the Army | 48 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 26 |
| Environmental Protection Agency | 18 |
| Department of Interior | 14 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 12 |
Top states
| Maryland | 92 |
| Texas | 24 |
| North Carolina | 19 |
| Colorado | 16 |
| California | 13 |
| Washington, D.C. | 7 |
| New Mexico | 7 |
| Virginia | 7 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 40% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 435 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences group (0400), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Wildland Fire ManagementSeries 0456 · 5,213 hires
- Forestry TechnicianSeries 0462 · 2,033 hires
- Biological Science TechnicianSeries 0404 · 1,692 hires