What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 0986 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-5
111
38.4%
GS-6
52
18%
GS-7
112
38.8%
GS-8
11
3.8%
GS-9
3
1%
289 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 | 176 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 92 |
| Department of the Air Force | 12 |
| Department of Interior | 6 |
| Department of the Army | 2 |
| Department of the Navy | 2 |
| Department of Commerce | 1 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 12 |
| Texas | 6 |
| New Mexico | 6 |
| Washington | 2 |
| California | 2 |
| New Jersey | 1 |
| New York | 1 |
| Louisiana | 1 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 89% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 291 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
- General Legal and Kindred AdministrationSeries 0901 · 371 hires