What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0950 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-5
55
13.8%
GS-7
160
40%
GS-9
80
20%
GS-11
76
19%
GS-12
23
5.8%
GS-13
4
1%
GS-14
2
0.5%
400 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 | 158 |
| Department of the Army | 132 |
| Department of the Air Force | 28 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 26 |
| Federal Trade Commission | 23 |
| Department of Defense | 11 |
| Office of Personnel Management | 5 |
| Department of the Navy | 4 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 104 |
| Illinois | 6 |
| New York | 4 |
| California | 4 |
| Virginia | 3 |
| New Mexico | 2 |
| Maryland | 2 |
| Oregon | 1 |
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 406 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
- General Legal and Kindred AdministrationSeries 0901 · 371 hires
- Legal AssistanceSeries 0986 · 291 hires