What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0850 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-5
13
5.2%
GS-7
82
32.8%
GS-9
11
4.4%
GS-11
19
7.6%
GS-12
46
18.4%
GS-13
54
21.6%
GS-14
20
8%
GS-15
5
2%
250 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 | 125 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 102 |
| Department of Energy | 23 |
| Department of the Army | 22 |
| Department of the Air Force | 15 |
| Department of Transportation | 9 |
| Department of Defense | 6 |
| Department of Interior | 3 |
Top states
| Florida | 90 |
| Washington | 20 |
| Texas | 11 |
| Colorado | 4 |
| California | 3 |
| Alaska | 2 |
| Arizona | 2 |
| Georgia | 2 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 54% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 310 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
- Engineering TechnicalSeries 0802 · 544 hires
- Electronics EngineeringSeries 0855 · 347 hires
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 310 hires