What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0830 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-5
10
2.6%
GS-7
210
53.7%
GS-9
58
14.8%
GS-11
27
6.9%
GS-12
48
12.3%
GS-13
28
7.2%
GS-14
6
1.5%
GS-15
4
1%
391 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 the Navy | 401 |
| Department of the Air Force | 76 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 64 |
| Department of the Army | 61 |
| Department of Commerce | 9 |
| Department of Transportation | 7 |
| Department of Energy | 5 |
| Department of Defense | 4 |
Top states
| Florida | 58 |
| Maryland | 8 |
| Mississippi | 6 |
| Washington | 3 |
| Colorado | 3 |
| Oregon | 2 |
| Illinois | 1 |
| Idaho | 1 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 86% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 633 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
- Engineering TechnicalSeries 0802 · 544 hires
- Electronics EngineeringSeries 0855 · 347 hires
- Electrical EngineeringSeries 0850 · 310 hires
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 310 hires