What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 1801 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-12.
GS-5
509
19%
GS-7
333
12.4%
GS-9
230
8.6%
GS-11
204
7.6%
GS-12
1,077
40.2%
GS-13
262
9.8%
GS-14
54
2%
GS-15
11
0.4%
2,680 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 Homeland Security | 8,216 |
| Department of Transportation | 182 |
| Department of Justice | 142 |
| Department of Commerce | 76 |
| Department of Agriculture | 73 |
| Department of Interior | 61 |
| Department of the Air Force | 42 |
| Department of the Navy | 22 |
Hire counts by employing agency, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on every hire in this series — standard for law-enforcement and intelligence occupations, where naming a duty state would identify individuals — so there is no state breakdown to publish.
Related occupations
Other series in the Investigation group (1800), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
- Criminal InvestigationSeries 1811 · 4,778 hires
- Border Patrol Enforcement SeriesSeries 1896 · 3,929 hires
- Compliance Inspection and SupportSeries 1802 · 2,767 hires
- Customs and Border ProtectionSeries 1895 · 2,415 hires
- Aviation SafetySeries 1825 · 450 hires
- Consumer Safety InspectionSeries 1862 · 303 hires