What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0899 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-4.
GS-2
3
0.4%
GS-3
20
2.9%
GS-4
234
34%
GS-5
122
17.7%
GS-6
158
22.9%
GS-7
85
12.3%
GS-9
65
9.4%
GS-11
2
0.3%
689 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 | 432 |
| Department of the Navy | 270 |
| Department of the Air Force | 203 |
| Department of the Army | 65 |
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 20 |
| Department of Energy | 11 |
| Department of Transportation | 8 |
| Department of Defense | 2 |
Top states
| Florida | 129 |
| Texas | 82 |
| Alabama | 65 |
| California | 56 |
| Virginia | 43 |
| Maryland | 27 |
| Ohio | 23 |
| Mississippi | 15 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 53% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 1,013 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
- 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
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 310 hires