What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0861 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-13.
GS-5
4
0.9%
GS-7
28
6.1%
GS-9
18
3.9%
GS-11
44
9.6%
GS-12
75
16.4%
GS-13
212
46.3%
GS-14
65
14.2%
GS-15
12
2.6%
458 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 | 433 |
| Department of the Navy | 90 |
| Department of Transportation | 90 |
| Department of the Air Force | 46 |
| National Transportation Safety Board | 5 |
| Department of Defense | 5 |
| Department of the Army | 4 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 1 |
Top states
| Alabama | 225 |
| Texas | 116 |
| Florida | 74 |
| California | 23 |
| Georgia | 16 |
| Washington, D.C. | 9 |
| Washington | 8 |
| Colorado | 5 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 23% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 674 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
- Mechanical EngineeringSeries 0830 · 633 hires
- Engineering TechnicalSeries 0802 · 544 hires
- Electronics EngineeringSeries 0855 · 347 hires
- Electrical EngineeringSeries 0850 · 310 hires
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 310 hires