What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0901 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-9.
GS-5
9
2.4%
GS-7
100
27%
GS-9
129
34.9%
GS-11
119
32.2%
GS-12
9
2.4%
GS-13
3
0.8%
GS-15
1
0.3%
370 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 Justice | 197 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 142 |
| Social Security Administration | 16 |
| Department of Interior | 4 |
| Department of the Navy | 2 |
| Department of Commerce | 2 |
| Office of Administration | 1 |
| Office of Personnel Management | 1 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 33 |
| Texas | 14 |
| Florida | 13 |
| California | 12 |
| Virginia | 12 |
| Missouri | 9 |
| Alabama | 7 |
| Illinois | 7 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 62% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 371 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Legal and Kindred group (0900), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- General AttorneySeries 0905 · 3,765 hires
- Contact RepresentativeSeries 0962 · 3,248 hires
- Paralegal SpecialistSeries 0950 · 406 hires
- Legal AssistanceSeries 0986 · 291 hires