As of Oct 7, 2026, our inventory holds 89 open federal human resources management postings that allow either remote work or telework. Agencies posting them: 51. Fully remote among them: 1. Posted in the last 30 days: 87. 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 tag each by occupational category. The numbers on this page refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. Read them with one caution in mind. HR work is desk work, which makes it more portable than most federal occupations, but agencies still tend to post it with a duty station and a telework agreement rather than as a fully remote job. The split below shows how many, if any, are fully remote today.
What a 0201 HR specialist does
Human resources management is the federal occupational series numbered 0201, and the people in it are the ones who make federal hiring, pay, classification and employee relations work. The category hub on our site collects postings in that series across every agency we track. HR assistant work is a separate series with its own category, so it is not in these numbers, and neither are the payroll or EEO series, which USAJOBS classifies elsewhere.
Within 0201, most jobs sit in one or two specialty areas, and the announcement usually names them. Described generally, the common ones are:
- Recruitment and placement: writing and posting announcements, applying hiring rules and veterans’ preference, rating applicants, issuing certificates and making offers.
- Classification: deciding which series and grade a position belongs in, writing and evaluating position descriptions.
- Employee and labor relations: performance and conduct cases, grievances, discipline, and working with unions under a collective bargaining agreement.
- Benefits: retirement, health and life insurance, leave and workers’ compensation counseling and processing.
- HR information systems: maintaining personnel records and the systems that process personnel actions.
Agencies also post generalist roles that cover several of these at once, and specialist roles in performance management, compensation, employee development or military personnel work. The specialty is the thing to read first on any announcement, because a classification specialist and a labor relations specialist can share a title and a grade and need different experience.
Fully remote or telework eligible in HR
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 into a vague “remote-friendly” label, because the difference is whether you must live near a particular office. Here is today’s split across every HR posting we hold:
If the fully remote count reads zero, that is not an error in our data; it is how agencies are posting HR work right now. HR offices serve the employees of a particular installation, region or headquarters, and the people who run them generally want staff within reach of it, so a duty station with telework is the usual arrangement. If the count reads a small number, treat those postings as the exception they are and apply inside the window, because an HR posting with no duty station draws applicants from the whole country. The remote vs. telework guide explains what a telework agreement does and does not promise, and the category hub shows the tier on every listing.
Which agencies post them
The agencies with the most open HR postings in our inventory right now are:
- Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys 6 listings
- Army National Guard Units 5 listings
- Veterans Health Administration 5 listings
- Air National Guard Units 4 listings
- US Army Civilian Human Resources Agency 4 listings
- Air Force Personnel Center 3 listings
- Department of State Headquarters 3 listings
- Office of the Secretary of the Interior 3 listings
Each name links to its hub, which lists that agency’s open postings across every occupation, not only HR. Every agency has an HR office, so the list is a mix: the organizations that run HR for others, such as civilian HR agencies and military personnel commands, the state-by-state Guard units that each hire their own HR staff, and whichever agencies are filling HR vacancies this month. The list shifts as announcements open and close.
What they pay
Advertised pay on HR postings we hold currently runs from $34,799 to $228,000 a year, with a typical figure of $109,295. The GS grades advertised span 5–15.
A word on “typical.” 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 HR posting in the inventory. Hourly rates are converted to annual pay at 2,087 hours, the standard federal work year. The low and high ends are the edges advertised on any posting, not what most applicants are offered. Postings that publish no usable pay figure are left out of all three numbers. The grade range counts only postings on the GS ladder; HR postings on other pay plans are not in it. The GS pay scale guide turns a grade into an actual offer.
HR specialist work is a career-ladder occupation in most agencies. A posting open at several grades at once is usually a ladder, where you are hired at the lower grade and promoted without re-competing as you meet the time and performance requirements, which is why some HR ranges look very wide.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 87 HR postings. In the last 7 days: 57. Most recent HR posting date: Oct 7, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace: how much of the current HR pool arrived within the past month. Many HR announcements run short open periods, some only a week, and a closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh, so checking once a month means missing postings that opened and closed in between.
How HR specialists apply
The rule that trips up most applicants for 0201 jobs is the specialized-experience statement. A federal announcement does not ask for “HR experience”; it asks for one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade, and for 0201 that statement usually names the specialty. A recruitment and placement announcement will describe experience applying staffing rules, rating applicants and issuing certificates; a classification announcement will describe evaluating position descriptions against classification standards; a labor relations announcement will describe handling grievances or negotiating with a union. HR staff screen applications against that sentence, and they know exactly what it means and apply it literally.
So your resume has to show the named specialty, in those words, with dates and hours per week. If you have done classification work under a different title, say “classification” and describe the standards you applied. If your experience is in the private sector, translate it: “talent acquisition” becomes recruitment and placement, “HRIS administration” becomes HR information systems. Do not make the screener guess. The federal resume guide walks through the format, and the application timeline guide explains what happens after you submit.
Two more things to read on every announcement. The “This job is open to” section says whether the posting takes applications from the public or only from current federal employees, veterans or other groups; many HR postings are internal. And the assessment questionnaire, linked from the announcement, lists the tasks the agency will rate you on; your resume should support every task you claim at the top level.
How to search for these
Start at the Human Resources Management hub, which lists every open HR posting we hold 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 agency and occupation; if an HR posting is on it, it will be there. If you can live near a federal office, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out, and the category hub is that list narrowed to HR.
On USAJOBS itself, search by series: enter 0201 in the keyword box or use the occupational series filter, then add the remote or telework filters as you need them. Every listing on our site links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply, and where the specialty, the grade and the hiring path are spelled out. Starting out? The entry-level listings page gathers federal postings at GS-7 and below.