What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0679 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-6.
GS-3
138
3%
GS-4
192
4.2%
GS-5
1,307
28.8%
GS-6
2,833
62.4%
GS-7
27
0.6%
GS-8
43
0.9%
4,540 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 Veterans Affairs | 4,033 |
| Department of Defense | 441 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 55 |
| Department of the Army | 11 |
Top states
| Texas | 384 |
| Florida | 293 |
| California | 277 |
| Ohio | 228 |
| North Carolina | 176 |
| Georgia | 166 |
| Virginia | 162 |
| Tennessee | 156 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 10% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 4,540 hires.