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
0.6%
GS-3
17
3.3%
GS-4
242
46.7%
GS-5
92
17.8%
GS-6
91
17.6%
GS-7
37
7.1%
GS-9
36
6.9%
518 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 | 288 |
| Department of the Navy | 246 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 237 |
| Department of the Army | 63 |
| Nuclear Regulatory Commission | 20 |
| Department of Energy | 11 |
| Department of Transportation | 8 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 1 |
Top states
| Florida | 62 |
| Alabama | 52 |
| Texas | 49 |
| California | 25 |
| Virginia | 22 |
| Mississippi | 14 |
| Maryland | 13 |
| Ohio | 12 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 68% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 876 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Engineering and Architecture group (0800), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- General EngineeringSeries 0801 · 1,153 hires
- Mechanical EngineeringSeries 0830 · 476 hires
- Aerospace EngineeringSeries 0861 · 451 hires
- Engineering TechnicalSeries 0802 · 418 hires
- Electronics EngineeringSeries 0855 · 317 hires
- Electronics TechnicalSeries 0856 · 274 hires