As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 17 open postings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that allow either remote work or telework. Fully remote among them: 0. Posted in the last 30 days: 17. 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 agency. The numbers on this page refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. Read them with one caution in mind. CDC is a laboratory and campus agency as much as a desk agency, and its hiring reflects that: telework-eligible postings with a fixed duty station are the usual case, and fully remote postings are the exception, when they appear at all. The split below shows how many, if any, are fully remote today.
What CDC does
CDC is the agency of the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for public health and disease prevention. It tracks disease in the United States through its surveillance systems, investigates outbreaks when a state asks for help, runs laboratories that identify pathogens and set testing standards, funds state and local health departments through grants, and publishes the guidance that clinicians and health officials work from. Its remit runs well past infectious disease: chronic disease, injury prevention, environmental health, occupational safety and health, and global health programs all sit inside it.
The agency is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with sizeable workplaces elsewhere, including Hyattsville, Maryland, Cincinnati, Ohio and Fort Collins, Colorado. That geography matters for this guide. A laboratory job is tied to a laboratory. A field epidemiology assignment is tied to the field. The postings in our inventory are the CDC jobs with enough location flexibility to be marked telework eligible or remote on USAJOBS, which tends to mean the analytical, administrative, informatics, communications and program-management work that keeps a large science agency running. They are a slice of CDC hiring, not the whole of it.
Fully remote or telework eligible at CDC
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 CDC posting we hold:
If the fully remote count reads zero, that is not an error in our data; it is CDC’s current posting pattern, and it matched what we saw on the day this guide was written, when every CDC posting we held was telework eligible and none was fully remote. If it reads a small number, treat those postings as the exception they are and apply inside the window, because a CDC posting with no duty station draws applicants from the whole country. Either way, the telework tier is where CDC’s flexibility lives. A telework-eligible CDC job means a duty station, most often Atlanta, and a telework agreement that lets you work from home on some days. How many days is set by the agency’s telework policy and by the supervisor, not by the announcement, and policy has tightened across the federal government since early 2025; the guide to why remote federal jobs became rare covers that shift. Plan on living within commuting distance of the duty station named in the announcement.
Commissioned Corps and fellowships are not in these numbers
CDC staffs itself in more than one way, and only one of them shows up here. The postings we count are civil-service announcements on USAJOBS, mostly on the General Schedule. CDC also relies heavily on officers of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, a uniformed service whose members are assigned to CDC and other health agencies. Corps officers are recruited and appointed through the Corps’s own process, under its own pay and benefits, and a Corps assignment at CDC is not a GS posting and is not in our inventory.
The agency also runs fellowships and training programs that are a common way in for scientists and public health professionals, among them the Epidemic Intelligence Service, its applied epidemiology training program. These programs have their own application cycles, eligibility rules and terms, and they are structured as training appointments rather than ordinary competitive-service announcements. Read about those routes on CDC’s own site; they are not the ordinary GS announcements this page is built around.
What kinds of work CDC posts
The occupational categories with the most CDC postings in our inventory right now are:
- General Health Science 6 listings
- Public Health Program Specialist 4 listings
- Medical Officer 2 listings
- Microbiology 2 listings
- Contracting 1 listing
- General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences 1 listing
Each category links to its hub, which shows the same family across every agency we track. Health science, epidemiology and statistics are the families most people associate with CDC; the list also tends to carry the information technology, public health program, administrative, financial and communications families that a large grant-making science agency depends on. The list shifts as announcements open and close, so a family missing this week may lead next month.
What they pay
Advertised pay on CDC postings we hold currently runs from $68,819 to $197,200 a year, with a typical figure of $145,343. The GS grades advertised span 9–15.
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 CDC 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 lowest and highest bounds advertised on any CDC posting, so they describe the edges, 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; postings on other pay plans use their own scales and are not in it. Advertised pay also includes the locality adjustment for the duty station, so an Atlanta posting and a Washington-area posting at the same grade will show different figures. The GS pay scale guide turns a grade into an actual offer.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 17 CDC postings. In the last 7 days: 7. Most recent CDC posting date: Oct 6, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace: how much of CDC’s current pool arrived within the past month. CDC announcements often run short open periods, and some close early once the agency has received the number of applications it set as a cap. A closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh. Checking once a month means missing postings that opened and closed in between.
How to search for these
Start at the CDC hub, which lists every open CDC posting we hold with its tier, 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; if a CDC posting is on it, it will be there. If you can live near a CDC duty station, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out, and the CDC hub is that list narrowed to one agency.
On USAJOBS itself, use the agency filter and choose Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Department of Health and Human Services, 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 duty station, the telework language and any application cap are spelled out. Starting out? The entry-level listings page gathers federal postings at GS-7 and below across every agency.