As of Oct 7, 2026, our inventory holds 4,253 open government-related postings that allow either remote work or telework. Federal postings among them: 3,885. Fully remote among those federal postings: 33. Postings at federal contractor companies: 368. Those figures are a count, not an estimate: every day we pull the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API and the current openings from the contractor career sites we track, keep the ones that allow remote work or telework, and tag each one by tier. The numbers refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. This page exists because “government job from home” covers three different arrangements, and most of the frustration comes from treating them as one. Here is what each is, what the data says today, and how to tell a real listing from a fake one.
Three ways to work from home in government work
The phrase hides three arrangements, and they differ in who employs you, where you must live, and how often the work appears.
1. Fully remote federal jobs
A federal posting is fully remote when the agency marks it remote on USAJOBS. There is no duty station in the ordinary sense; the work is done from an approved location, and the posting draws applicants from the whole country. This is what most people mean when they search for a government job from home, and it is the scarcest of the three. Since the January 2025 return-to-office directive, agencies have posted far fewer of these, and the ones that appear tend to be in occupational families that were already distributed before the directive. Here is today’s split across every federal posting we hold:
The bar reads from our inventory, which holds only federal postings with some location flexibility; postings tied to one office with no telework never enter it. So the share shown answers a narrow question: among federal postings that offer any flexibility, how many offer all of it? If you want the full picture of how rare fully remote federal work has become, with agencies, categories, pay and pace, read how rare are remote federal jobs, which is the live count, and why remote federal jobs became rare, which is the history.
2. Telework-eligible federal jobs
A federal posting is telework eligible when it carries a specific duty station and the agency lets the employee work from home for part of the schedule under a telework agreement. This is the larger pool by a wide margin, and it is the one most people filter out by mistake. A telework-eligible job is a job from home some of the week, not all of it, and the agreement is set by the agency and the supervisor, not by the announcement. The practical test is whether you can live within commuting distance of the duty station. If you can, the telework list adds every posting the remote filter hides. The remote vs. telework guide explains what the agreement does and does not promise, and why we never blur the two tiers into a single “remote-friendly” label.
3. Remote jobs at federal contractors
The third arrangement is a job at a company that does government work under contract. Contractors hire under ordinary private-sector rules, were never covered by the federal return-to-office directive, and post remote openings on their own career sites rather than on USAJOBS. The work is often the same mission work, performed beside federal employees, but the employer is the company, the benefits are the company’s, and the hiring process moves at private-sector speed. Here is today’s split across every contractor posting we hold:
If the bar reads entirely or almost entirely remote, that is by design: contractors do not use the federal telework designation, and we take only the openings their career sites mark as remote, so a contractor posting in our inventory is a fully remote one. Contractor postings in our inventory carry no pay figure, so pay is a conversation for the interview rather than a line on the announcement. If direct federal employment is not a requirement for you, this is the market that most resembles a conventional remote job search. The contracting guide explains the difference between working for a contractor and the federal Contracting occupation, which is a different thing with a confusingly similar name, and the companies page lists every contractor we track with its current counts.
Who posts fully remote jobs today
Across both the federal agencies and the contractor companies we track, these are the employers with the most fully remote postings right now:
- CACI International 212 listings
- Booz Allen Hamilton 54 listings
- Guidehouse 41 listings
- GDIT 33 listings
- Leidos 28 listings
- Veterans Health Administration 16 listings
Read the list as a snapshot, not a league table. It shifts as hiring rounds open and close, and the mix of agencies and companies on it shows where fully remote work is coming from this week. Each name links to its hub, where every posting we hold for that employer appears with its tier, so you can judge whether its remote postings are a steady stream or a one-off. The complete set, across every employer, is the fully remote list.
What we do not list
We track federal postings from USAJOBS and openings at federal contractor companies. We do not list state or local government jobs, and nothing on this site counts them or describes them. Our numbers cover the federal and contractor markets only.
How to spot a fake listing
Searches for government jobs from home attract scams, because the words “government” and “from home” together promise security and convenience. A few established facts cut through most of them.
- Real federal jobs are posted on official government sites. Nearly all are on USAJOBS; a few agencies, mainly in the intelligence community, also recruit through their own .gov sites. Every federal listing on this site links to its original USAJOBS announcement. A “federal job” that can only be applied for by text message, a chat app or a third-party form is not one.
- Federal agencies do not charge application fees. There is no fee to apply, no fee for a background check that you pay up front, and no fee for “processing.” Anyone asking for money to apply for, or to secure, a federal job is not the federal government.
- No one can sell you a guaranteed government job. Federal hiring is competitive, and selection is made by the agency after the announcement closes. Services that promise placement for a price, or that claim an inside track, are selling something the hiring process does not allow.
- Watch for the shape of the offer. A job offer that arrives without an interview, that asks you to buy equipment and be reimbursed, or that sends a check and asks for part of it back is a pattern the Federal Trade Commission describes in its consumer guidance on job scams. If an approach fits that shape, the FTC’s guidance explains how to report it.
Contractor postings follow private-sector rules, so apply the same tests you would to any company: the posting should sit on the company’s own career site, the recruiter should write from the company’s domain, and no money should change hands in your direction.
How to search
Start from the arrangement you can actually accept, because that decides which list to read. If fully remote is non-negotiable, read the fully remote list in full; it is the complete set we hold, not a sample, and a title filter can only cost you listings. If you can live near a federal office, read the telework list as well, since it is the larger pool. If a company employer is fine, the companies page adds the contractor market.
On USAJOBS itself, the search filters include remote and telework options; use the remote one when you need fully remote and the telework one when a duty station near you would do, and save the search with notifications turned on, because some announcements are open only briefly. Starting out? The entry-level listings page gathers federal postings at GS-7 and below, and the entry-level guide explains what those grades mean. When you are ready to apply, how to get a remote federal job walks through the federal application from resume to tentative offer. Every listing here links to the original posting, which is where you apply.