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-6.
GS-5
187
31.9%
GS-6
188
32.1%
GS-7
135
23%
GS-8
54
9.2%
GS-9
16
2.7%
GS-10
5
0.9%
GS-12
1
0.2%
586 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 | 2,870 |
| Department of Transportation | 15 |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | 9 |
| Department of the Army | 7 |
| Department of Justice | 4 |
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.
- General Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, and Compliance SeriesSeries 1801 · 8,524 hires
- Criminal InvestigationSeries 1811 · 4,704 hires
- Border Patrol Enforcement SeriesSeries 1896 · 4,169 hires
- Customs and Border ProtectionSeries 1895 · 2,456 hires
- Aviation SafetySeries 1825 · 464 hires
- Consumer Safety InspectionSeries 1862 · 318 hires