What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0404 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-1
31
2%
GS-2
14
0.9%
GS-3
50
3.2%
GS-4
113
7.3%
GS-5
769
49.9%
GS-6
277
18%
GS-7
252
16.4%
GS-8
14
0.9%
GS-9
20
1.3%
1,540 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 Interior | 1,134 |
| Department of Agriculture | 449 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 32 |
| Department of the Army | 3 |
| Department of Defense | 2 |
| Department of the Navy | 1 |
| Presidio Trust | 1 |
Top states
| California | 160 |
| Alaska | 109 |
| Colorado | 99 |
| Washington | 98 |
| Wyoming | 90 |
| Michigan | 89 |
| Oregon | 70 |
| Utah | 54 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 2% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 1,622 hires.