What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0905 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-14.
GS-7
4
0.2%
GS-11
160
7.2%
GS-12
214
9.6%
GS-13
349
15.6%
GS-14
1,006
45.1%
GS-15
499
22.4%
2,232 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 | 1,407 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 1,214 |
| Department of Commerce | 119 |
| Department of Defense | 89 |
| Department of the Army | 55 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 51 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 48 |
| Federal Trade Commission | 48 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 1,007 |
| Virginia | 105 |
| Texas | 62 |
| New York | 44 |
| Florida | 39 |
| Maryland | 34 |
| California | 33 |
| Illinois | 27 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 56% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 3,574 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Legal and Kindred group (0900), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Contact RepresentativeSeries 0962 · 2,649 hires
- Paralegal SpecialistSeries 0950 · 385 hires
- General Legal and Kindred AdministrationSeries 0901 · 326 hires
- Legal AssistanceSeries 0986 · 275 hires