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
103
37.7%
GS-6
46
16.8%
GS-7
112
41%
GS-8
9
3.3%
GS-9
3
1.1%
273 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 | 153 |
| Department of Homeland Security | 98 |
| Department of the Air Force | 12 |
| Department of Interior | 6 |
| Department of the Navy | 2 |
| Department of the Army | 2 |
| Department of Commerce | 1 |
| Department of Defense | 1 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 11 |
| New Mexico | 6 |
| Texas | 5 |
| New Jersey | 1 |
| Arizona | 1 |
| Virginia | 1 |
| Washington | 1 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 91% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 275 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Legal and Kindred group (0900), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- General AttorneySeries 0905 · 3,574 hires
- Contact RepresentativeSeries 0962 · 2,649 hires
- Paralegal SpecialistSeries 0950 · 385 hires
- General Legal and Kindred AdministrationSeries 0901 · 326 hires