What grade the government hires at
Every General Schedule hire into series 2005 over the last twelve months, by grade. The most common entry point is GS-5.
GS-3
1
0.1%
GS-4
8
1%
GS-5
444
53%
GS-6
80
9.6%
GS-7
298
35.6%
GS-8
5
0.6%
GS-10
1
0.1%
837 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 Veterans Affairs | 484 |
| Department of the Army | 161 |
| Department of Defense | 97 |
| Department of the Air Force | 68 |
| Department of the Navy | 59 |
| Department of Agriculture | 3 |
| Government Printing Office | 3 |
| Government Publishing Office | 1 |
Top states
| California | 62 |
| Texas | 48 |
| Florida | 39 |
| North Carolina | 34 |
| Georgia | 24 |
| Missouri | 23 |
| Tennessee | 21 |
| Nevada | 20 |
Hire counts by employing agency and duty state, trailing twelve months. OPM suppressed the duty location on 44% of hires in this series — small offices where a state would identify the individual — so the state table ranks the disclosed remainder, not all 877 hires.
Related occupations
Other series in the Supply group (2000), by federal hires over the same twelve months.
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