As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 425 open entry-level federal postings, at GS-7 and below, that allow either remote work or telework. Fully remote among them: 8. Posted in the last 30 days: 383. Those figures are a count, not an estimate: every day we pull the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API, keep the ones that allow remote work or telework, and read the grade range on each. The numbers on this page refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. The rest of this guide explains what “entry level” means here, what the starting grades ask for, where these jobs are, and how to search for them.
What “entry level” means here
We define an entry-level posting by its lowest advertised grade, not by its title. A federal posting is entry level on this site when it is on the General Schedule ladder (pay plans GS, GG or GL) and the lowest grade it advertises is GS-7 or below. That rule catches the postings where a federal career can actually begin: a job advertised at GS-5 to GS-9, for example, counts, because you can enter it at GS-5 and climb. A job advertised only at GS-9 and above does not count, however junior its title sounds. Postings on other pay plans, such as wage-grade trades jobs, use their own grade scales and are left out, as are contractor postings, which carry no grade at all.
This is narrower than “jobs that say entry level in the announcement,” and more useful, because the grade decides the qualification bar and the starting pay. The entry-level listings page applies the same rule to produce its list, so the count there always matches the count in the box at the top of this page.
What GS-5 and GS-7 commonly require
The grade sets the qualification bar. At GS-5, the common requirement is a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. At GS-7, it is a year of graduate study, a bachelor’s degree with Superior Academic Achievement, or a year of specialized experience at the GS-5 level. Clerical and technician series often start lower still. The announcement is the authority on its own qualification rules, so read that section before you apply.
Two things follow from that. First, a bachelor’s degree with no work history is a real route in at GS-5 for many professional and administrative series, and at GS-7 if your grades qualify for Superior Academic Achievement or you have a year of graduate study. Second, experience counts even without a degree: the “equivalent experience” and “specialized experience” routes are stated in each announcement, and the experience has to match what the announcement describes, not just a job title. The federal resume guide explains how to write your experience so a reviewer can match it against that section.
Fully remote or telework eligible?
Two tiers decide where you can live. A posting is fully remote when the agency marks it remote on USAJOBS, so the work can be done from an approved location anywhere in the country. A posting is telework eligible when it carries a specific duty station and the agency lets you work from home part of the time. We never merge the two. Here is today’s split across every entry-level federal posting we hold:
Read that split before you set your expectations. Entry-level work is often the kind an agency wants in the building, at least to start, so a fully remote entry-level posting is worth applying to quickly when one appears. If you live near a federal office, or can move to one, the telework tier is your real market, and the remote vs. telework guide explains what a telework agreement does and does not promise.
What kinds of work they are
The occupational categories with the most entry-level federal postings in our inventory right now are:
- Miscellaneous Clerk and Assistant 66 listings
- Medical Support Assistance 29 listings
- Dietitian and Nutritionist 17 listings
- Human Resources Assistance 14 listings
- Civil Engineering 10 listings
- Financial Clerical and Assistance 10 listings
- General Business and Industry 10 listings
- Loan Specialist 10 listings
Read the list as a map, not a ranking. It shows which occupational families agencies are currently filling from the bottom of the ladder, and the order shifts with each hiring round. Clerical, technician, assistant and support series start low by design; many professional series start at GS-5 or GS-7 and climb a career ladder from there. Each category links to its hub, which shows the same family across every grade.
Which agencies post them
The agencies with the most entry-level postings in our inventory right now are:
- Veterans Health Administration 115 listings
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 37 listings
- Farm Service Agency 19 listings
- Internal Revenue Service 16 listings
- U.S. Army Reserve Command 15 listings
- Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys 11 listings
Across all entry-level federal postings we hold, 82 distinct agencies are hiring. Large agencies with high-volume processing, clinical support or customer-facing work tend to post at these grades steadily; smaller agencies post occasionally. Each name links to that agency’s hub, which shows every listing we hold for it.
What they pay
Advertised pay on entry-level federal postings we hold currently runs from $34,799 to $164,301 a year, with a typical figure of $63,022.
A word on “typical,” because it is doing real work here. A federal announcement advertises a pay range, not a single salary, and the range can be wide when a job is open at several grades. For each posting we take the midpoint of its advertised range; the typical figure is the median of those midpoints across every entry-level posting in the inventory. Hourly rates are converted to annual pay at 2,087 hours, the federal work year. The high end can look surprising on an entry-level page: it is the top of the widest advertised range, which is usually a career-ladder posting that starts at GS-5 or GS-7 and is advertised through its full-performance grade. Every posting counted here starts at GS-7 or below. Postings that publish no usable pay figure, including unpaid internships, are left out of the pay numbers. The GS pay scale guide turns a grade and step into an actual figure for your locality.
How entry level compares with all federal listings
Entry-level postings are 11% of the 3,754 federal postings we track that allow remote work or telework. The denominator is our own inventory, not every job on USAJOBS and not the federal workforce, so the share answers a narrow question: of the federal postings with some location flexibility, how many can you enter at GS-7 or below? Posted in the last 30 days: 383 entry-level postings. In the last 7 days: 245. Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace of this market. Entry-level announcements can close fast, sometimes when an application cap is reached, and a closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh.
Pathways: internships and recent graduates
If you are a current student or a recent graduate, look for Pathways announcements. Pathways has three programs; the Internship Program and the Recent Graduates Program are built for people at the start of a career (the Presidential Management Fellows Program starts higher), and both are excepted-service programs, which means agencies hire into them outside the ordinary competitive process. Each announcement states its own eligibility window, so check the dates and the enrollment or graduation conditions on the announcement itself rather than assuming. Pathways postings enter our inventory like any other federal posting when they are marked remote or telework eligible, so the ones at GS-7 and below are on the entry-level listings page.
How to search for these
Start at the entry-level listings page, which lists every open federal posting we hold at GS-7 and below with its tier, agency, advertised pay and closing date, refreshed daily from USAJOBS. If fully remote is non-negotiable, the fully remote list is the complete set across every grade; cross it with the entry-level page. If you can live near a duty station, the telework list holds everything else.
On USAJOBS itself, use the hiring path filters: “Students” and “Recent graduates” surface Pathways announcements, and the grade filter narrows any search to the grades you can enter at. Every listing on our site links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply. Have a federal-format resume ready before the posting you want appears, because the window can be short; the how to get a remote federal job guide walks through the application itself, and the application timeline guide sets out what happens after you submit.