As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 35 fully remote federal job postings. That is out of 3,754 federal postings we track that allow either remote work or telework — a share of 0.9%. Those figures are not an estimate. They are a count. Every day we pull the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API, keep the ones that are fully remote or telework eligible, drop the ones that have closed, and total them up. This page reads straight from that day’s total, so the numbers you see are the numbers on the site right now, and they can be different tomorrow. If you want the story of why the fully remote pool shrank, read why remote federal jobs became rare. This page is the companion to it: not why, but how many, today.
What we count, and what we don’t
Two definitions decide everything on this page. A posting is fully remote when the agency marks the announcement remote on USAJOBS, so the work can be done from an approved location anywhere. A posting is telework eligible when it comes with a specific duty station and the agency allows some of the work to be done from home. We tag every listing as one or the other and never merge them into a vague “remote-friendly” label, because the difference — whether you must live near a particular building — is the one that shapes your life. The remote vs. telework guide covers the detail.
Now the denominator, because it is easy to misread. The total we compare against is the set of federal postings in our inventory that allow remote work or telework. It is not every job on USAJOBS, and it is not the roughly 2.3 million people in the federal workforce. Postings with no location flexibility never enter our inventory at all, so the share above answers a narrow question: of the federal postings that offer some flexibility about where you work, how many offer all of it? It is a narrower question than “what share of federal jobs are remote,” and it is the only one we can answer from our own data.
Here is the split across every federal posting we hold today:
Who posts fully remote federal jobs
Fully remote federal postings are not spread evenly across government. The agencies with the most of them are listed below, and the list shifts as hiring rounds open and close:
- Veterans Health Administration 19 listings
- Veterans Benefits Administration 3 listings
- Agriculture, Rural Development 2 listings
- Citizenship and Immigration Services 2 listings
- Judicial Branch Headquarters 2 listings
- Library of Congress 2 listings
- Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts 1 listing
- Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System 1 listing
- Executive Office for Immigration Review 1 listing
- Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council 1 listing
Across all fully remote federal postings, 11 distinct agencies are hiring. An agency on this list is posting fully remote work today, after the January 2025 return-to-office directive, which means it has a process for doing so. Each name links to that agency’s hub, where you can see every listing we hold for it, remote and telework alike, and judge for yourself whether its remote postings are a steady stream or a one-off. The complete set, across every agency, is on the fully remote list. If working remotely is non-negotiable for you, that page and the agency hubs above are where your search should live.
What kinds of work they are
These are the occupational categories with the most fully remote federal postings today:
- Medical Officer 10 listings
- Medical Records Technician 7 listings
- General Business and Industry 2 listings
- General Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, and Compliance Series 2 listings
- Information Technology Management 2 listings
- Attorney 1 listing
- Instructional Systems 1 listing
- Management and Program Analysis 1 listing
Read the list as a map, not a ranking. It shows which occupational families agencies currently classify as remote, and the order shifts with each hiring round, so the useful question is whether your own family is on it at all. The useful move is to stop searching by job title and start searching by category. A title varies from one agency to the next; a category comes from the occupational series and is applied consistently. Every category we track has its own hub with current remote and telework counts, all reachable from the categories page. If your background fits one of the families listed above, start there rather than on the general list.
What they pay
Advertised pay on fully remote federal postings currently runs from $36,409 to $400,000 a year, with a typical figure of $113,939. The GS grades advertised span 3–15. For comparison, the typical figure for telework-eligible federal postings is $122,404.
A word on “typical,” because it is doing real work here. A federal announcement advertises a pay range, not a single figure, 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 posting in the group. Hourly rates are converted to annual pay at 2,087 hours, the standard federal work year, so hourly and salaried postings sit on one scale. The low and high ends are the lowest and highest bounds advertised on any posting in the group, so they describe the edges of the market, not what most applicants are offered. Postings that publish no usable pay figure are left out of all three numbers. To turn a grade into an actual offer, read the GS pay scale explained; remote employees are generally paid on the locality table for where they live, which changes the arithmetic.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 25 fully remote federal postings, against 3,244 telework-eligible ones. In the last 7 days: 21. Most recent fully remote federal posting date: Oct 6, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace of the market: how much of the current pool arrived within the past month. Fully remote postings also close, and a closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh after its close date, or within about two days if it disappears from its source early. The list you see today is not the list you will see next week, and checking once a month means missing postings that opened and closed in between. Make it a routine instead: look at the remote list daily or every few days, newest first, and have your federal resume ready so you can apply inside the window rather than after it.
The other remote market: contractors
The federal government is not the only employer in our inventory. We also track the career sites of federal contractors — companies that do government work under contract, hire under ordinary private-sector rules, and were never subject to the return-to-office directive. Today they contribute 362 fully remote postings, which is 91% of all fully remote listings on the site. The contractors with the most fully remote postings right now:
- CACI International 208 listings
- Booz Allen Hamilton 52 listings
- Guidehouse 39 listings
- GDIT 34 listings
- Leidos 29 listings
The contractor postings we track carry no pay figure, so they are absent from the pay figures above; that conversation happens in the interview. What they offer is a second remote market running alongside the federal one, often for similar mission work, with a hiring process that moves at private-sector speed. If direct federal employment is not a requirement for you, the contractor guide explains how the work and the hiring differ, and the companies page lists every contractor we track with its current counts.
What this means for your search
Four moves follow from the numbers above.
- Read the fully remote list in full. It is the complete set of fully remote federal postings we hold, not a sample, so a title filter can only cost you listings. Go through every fully remote listing, not just the ones whose titles match your last job.
- Widen to telework if you can live near a duty station. The tier bar above shows how the federal pool splits. If you are already near a federal hub, or willing to move to one, the telework list adds every posting you have been filtering out.
- Search by category, not title. The category hubs group jobs by occupational family, which is how agencies actually classify them. Start from the categories that appear in the list above.
- Apply inside the window. A posting with no duty station draws applicants from the whole country, and it closes on its own schedule. Have a federal-format resume ready before the posting you want appears; the how to get a remote federal job guide walks through the application itself.
How we counted
Every day we fetch the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API and the current openings from the contractor career sites we track. We keep a posting if it is fully remote or telework eligible, tag it as one or the other, and assign it to an agency or company and an occupational category. A posting drops out of the inventory at the next daily refresh after it closes, or within about two days if it disappears from its source early, and the site is rebuilt after each refresh, so every number on this page is computed from that day’s active postings and nothing older.
Two limitations are worth knowing. First, we count postings, not openings: one USAJOBS announcement can fill several positions, so the number of jobs available is at least the number shown and may be higher. Second, some postings are open for continuous recruitment, staying in the inventory for months and collecting applications on a rolling basis; they are real openings, but they are not new ones, which is why we also show the 7-day and 30-day counts. The figures here change from day to day because the postings underneath them do. More on sources and method is on the about page.