What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0802 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-12.
GS-2
3
0.7%
GS-4
20
4.5%
GS-5
13
2.9%
GS-7
7
1.6%
GS-8
1
0.2%
GS-9
58
12.9%
GS-10
38
8.5%
GS-11
147
32.7%
GS-12
157
35%
GS-13
5
1.1%
449 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 | 217 |
| Department of the Navy | 194 |
| Department of the Army | 34 |
| Department of Transportation | 30 |
| Department of the Air Force | 26 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 10 |
| Department of Interior | 7 |
| Department of Justice | 7 |
Top states
| Mississippi | 76 |
| Florida | 73 |
| California | 59 |
| Texas | 22 |
| Oklahoma | 12 |
| Washington | 4 |
| Indiana | 4 |
| West Virginia | 4 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 48% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 544 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Engineering and Architecture group (0800), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- General EngineeringSeries 0801 · 1,676 hires
- Engineering and Architecture Student TraineeSeries 0899 · 1,013 hires
- Aerospace EngineeringSeries 0861 · 674 hires
- Mechanical EngineeringSeries 0830 · 633 hires
- Electronics EngineeringSeries 0855 · 347 hires
- Electrical EngineeringSeries 0850 · 310 hires
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 310 hires