What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0801 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-13.
GS-5
8
0.7%
GS-7
80
7%
GS-9
61
5.3%
GS-11
143
12.5%
GS-12
329
28.7%
GS-13
345
30.1%
GS-14
143
12.5%
GS-15
37
3.2%
1,146 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
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 757 |
| Department of the Air Force | 221 |
| Department of the Navy | 199 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 153 |
| Department of Defense | 111 |
| Department of the Army | 42 |
| Department of Transportation | 40 |
| Department of Energy | 31 |
Top states
| Texas | 556 |
| Florida | 134 |
| Washington, D.C. | 70 |
| Alabama | 56 |
| Maryland | 51 |
| California | 44 |
| Virginia | 14 |
| Missouri | 13 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 34% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 1,676 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Engineering and Architecture group (0800), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Engineering and Architecture Student TraineeSeries 0899 · 1,013 hires
- Aerospace EngineeringSeries 0861 · 674 hires
- Mechanical EngineeringSeries 0830 · 633 hires
- Engineering TechnicalSeries 0802 · 544 hires
- Electronics EngineeringSeries 0855 · 347 hires
- Electrical EngineeringSeries 0850 · 310 hires
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 310 hires