What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0962 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-4
52
1.6%
GS-5
2,653
81.7%
GS-6
291
9%
GS-7
241
7.4%
GS-8
9
0.3%
GS-9
2
0.1%
3,248 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 Treasury | 2,272 |
| Social Security Administration | 757 |
| Department of Defense | 135 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 66 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 9 |
| Department of Interior | 6 |
| Department of the Air Force | 2 |
| Department of the Army | 1 |
Top states
| Texas | 373 |
| Pennsylvania | 373 |
| Georgia | 314 |
| New York | 247 |
| California | 233 |
| Tennessee | 202 |
| Florida | 160 |
| Maryland | 136 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 20% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 3,248 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
- Paralegal SpecialistSeries 0950 · 406 hires
- General Legal and Kindred AdministrationSeries 0901 · 371 hires
- Legal AssistanceSeries 0986 · 291 hires