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
54
2%
GS-5
2,174
82.1%
GS-6
229
8.6%
GS-7
187
7.1%
GS-8
3
0.1%
GS-9
2
0.1%
2,649 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 | 1,843 |
| Social Security Administration | 597 |
| Department of Defense | 137 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 59 |
| Department of Interior | 6 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 4 |
| Department of the Air Force | 2 |
| Department of the Army | 1 |
Top states
| Georgia | 311 |
| Texas | 274 |
| Pennsylvania | 254 |
| Tennessee | 204 |
| California | 200 |
| New York | 179 |
| Maryland | 133 |
| Utah | 111 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 19% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 2,649 hires.