What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 1550 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-7.
GS-7
39
58.2%
GS-9
8
11.9%
GS-11
2
3%
GS-12
2
3%
GS-13
5
7.5%
GS-14
10
14.9%
GS-15
1
1.5%
67 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 the Air Force | 336 |
| Department of the Navy | 238 |
| Department of Justice | 13 |
| Department of Commerce | 11 |
| Department of the Army | 10 |
| Department of Defense | 9 |
| Department of Veterans Affairs | 2 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 2 |
Top states
| Maryland | 13 |
| Washington, D.C. | 5 |
| Alabama | 2 |
| Massachusetts | 2 |
| New Jersey | 1 |
| New York | 1 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 96% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 626 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Mathematical Sciences group (1500), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Mathematics and Statistics Student TraineeSeries 1599 · 296 hires