What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 1101 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-4.
GS-2
4
0.5%
GS-4
433
51.7%
GS-5
42
5%
GS-6
27
3.2%
GS-7
76
9.1%
GS-8
2
0.2%
GS-9
52
6.2%
GS-11
40
4.8%
GS-12
63
7.5%
GS-13
69
8.2%
GS-14
20
2.4%
GS-15
9
1.1%
837 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 Defense | 542 |
| Department of the Air Force | 276 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 67 |
| Department of the Navy | 65 |
| Department of Agriculture | 29 |
| Department of Energy | 26 |
| Dfc | 24 |
| Small Business Administration | 24 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 70 |
| New York | 20 |
| Texas | 12 |
| California | 12 |
| Georgia | 9 |
| Virginia | 9 |
| Illinois | 8 |
| Missouri | 8 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 78% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 1,151 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Business and Industry group (1100), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- ContractingSeries 1102 · 1,561 hires