What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 1802 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-5
192
32.8%
GS-6
183
31.3%
GS-7
136
23.2%
GS-8
51
8.7%
GS-9
16
2.7%
GS-10
5
0.9%
GS-12
2
0.3%
585 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 | 2,733 |
| Department of Transportation | 13 |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | 9 |
| Department of the Army | 7 |
| Department of Justice | 5 |
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.