What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0855 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-5
1
1%
GS-7
36
36.4%
GS-9
17
17.2%
GS-11
1
1%
GS-12
11
11.1%
GS-13
23
23.2%
GS-14
6
6.1%
GS-15
4
4%
99 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 Air Force | 161 |
| Department of the Navy | 107 |
| Department of Transportation | 24 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 16 |
| Department of Defense | 16 |
| Department of Commerce | 8 |
| Department of Energy | 5 |
| Federal Communications Commission | 3 |
Top states
| Oklahoma | 12 |
| Texas | 11 |
| Colorado | 6 |
| Washington, D.C. | 5 |
| Florida | 5 |
| Washington | 4 |
| Maryland | 3 |
| California | 3 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 83% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 347 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
- Electrical EngineeringSeries 0850 · 310 hires
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 310 hires