What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 1599 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-4.
GS-3
2
1.9%
GS-4
67
65%
GS-5
20
19.4%
GS-6
5
4.9%
GS-7
9
8.7%
103 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 Navy | 140 |
| Department of the Air Force | 115 |
| Department of Transportation | 14 |
| Department of the Army | 6 |
| Office of Personnel Management | 6 |
| Nat Aeronautics and Space Administration | 6 |
| Department of Health and Human Services | 5 |
| Department of Defense | 2 |
Top states
| Washington, D.C. | 12 |
| Massachusetts | 9 |
| Maryland | 6 |
| Mississippi | 1 |
| Ohio | 1 |
| Alabama | 1 |
| Texas | 1 |
| California | 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 296 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Mathematical Sciences group (1500), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Computer ScienceSeries 1550 · 626 hires