What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0856 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-11.
GS-7
24
10.2%
GS-8
3
1.3%
GS-9
33
14%
GS-10
17
7.2%
GS-11
103
43.8%
GS-12
52
22.1%
GS-13
2
0.9%
GS-14
1
0.4%
235 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 | 118 |
| Department of the Air Force | 47 |
| Department of Commerce | 46 |
| Department of Justice | 44 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 18 |
| Department of the Army | 9 |
| Department of Defense | 9 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 7 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 10 |
| Alaska | 7 |
| Texas | 5 |
| Colorado | 5 |
| North Carolina | 4 |
| Arizona | 4 |
| Georgia | 4 |
| Montana | 4 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 72% 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
- Electrical EngineeringSeries 0850 · 310 hires