As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 14 open postings at the Federal Emergency Management Agency that allow either remote work or telework. Fully remote among them: 0. Posted in the last 30 days: 14. 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. FEMA’s business is showing up where a disaster has happened, and that shapes its hiring: 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 FEMA does
FEMA is the component of the Department of Homeland Security that leads federal disaster preparedness, response and recovery. When a governor requests and the President declares a major disaster, FEMA coordinates the federal side of the response, runs assistance programs for individuals and for state, local, tribal and territorial governments, and funds mitigation work meant to reduce the damage from the next event. Between disasters it manages grant programs, runs the National Flood Insurance Program, and trains emergency managers.
That mission has two faces, and so does FEMA’s workforce. One face is in the field: disaster recovery centers, joint field offices and staging areas. The other is at headquarters and the regional offices: program management, grants, finance, human capital, IT, engineering, public affairs and analysis. Most of the postings in our inventory come from the second face. They are the FEMA jobs with enough location flexibility to be marked telework eligible or remote on USAJOBS, and they are a slice of FEMA hiring, not the whole of it.
Fully remote or telework eligible at FEMA
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 FEMA posting we hold:
If the fully remote count reads zero, that is not an error in our data; it is FEMA’s current posting pattern. If it reads a small number, treat those postings as the exception they are and apply inside the window, because a FEMA posting with no duty station draws applicants from the whole country. Either way, the telework tier is where most of FEMA’s flexibility lives. A telework-eligible FEMA job means a duty station, whether headquarters, a regional office or another FEMA facility, with an agreement that lets you work from home some of the week. The remote vs. telework guide explains what that agreement does and does not promise, and the FEMA hub shows the tier on every listing.
The kinds of FEMA appointments
FEMA hires on several kinds of appointment, and the kind matters more than the title, because it decides how long the job lasts and whether it is a permanent federal position at all. Described generally:
- Permanent full-time positions under Title 5, the ordinary federal appointment, with the usual benefits and the usual competitive or excepted hiring rules.
- CORE positions: temporary appointments under Stafford Act authority, typically two to four years, and renewable.
- Reservists: intermittent, on-call staff who are deployed to disasters as they happen.
- Local hires, brought on in the area of a disaster while it is being worked.
Each announcement states which kind of appointment it is, and the “Duties” and “Conditions of employment” sections say whether the job carries a deployment requirement. Read those before the salary. A CORE appointment and a permanent appointment can carry the same title and the same grade and be very different jobs.
Deployment is the opposite of remote
Say it plainly: a deployable FEMA role means travel to disaster sites, often on short notice and for weeks at a time, and that is the opposite of a remote job. Reservists exist to be deployed, and CORE positions are tied to disaster work by their authority. Announcements for other appointments can also carry a condition of employment that the employee may be deployed to support disaster operations. A posting can be marked telework eligible and still carry that condition, because the telework agreement covers the ordinary weeks and the deployment requirement covers the rest.
So when you read a FEMA announcement, look for two separate things: the location flexibility, which we show as the tier on each listing, and the deployment requirement, which only the announcement states. A job that is telework eligible with no deployment requirement is a desk job at a duty station. A job that is telework eligible with a deployment requirement is a desk job most of the time and a field job when a disaster says so. Our tier tells you the first; the announcement tells you the second.
What kinds of work FEMA posts
The occupational categories with the most FEMA postings in our inventory right now are:
- Emergency Management Specialist 5 listings
- Miscellaneous Administration and Program 4 listings
- Automotive Mechanic 1 listing
- Civil Engineering 1 listing
- Financial Administration and Program 1 listing
- Management and Program Analysis 1 listing
Each category links to its hub, which shows the same family across every agency we track. Emergency management specialist is FEMA’s signature series, covering mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery planning, and it tends to appear here alongside the administrative, analytical, financial and technical families that keep a large program agency running. The list shifts as announcements open and close, so a family missing this week may lead next month.
What they pay
Advertised pay on FEMA postings we hold currently runs from $68,999 to $197,200 a year, with a typical figure of $134,878. The GS grades advertised span 9–14.
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 FEMA 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 FEMA 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, such as wage-grade trades jobs, use their own scales and are not in it. The GS pay scale guide turns a grade into an actual offer.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 14 FEMA postings. In the last 7 days: 12. Most recent FEMA 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 FEMA’s current pool arrived within the past month. FEMA announcements often run short open periods, and a closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh. Hiring also comes in waves with the disaster season. Checking once a month means missing postings that opened and closed in between.
How to search for these
Start at the FEMA hub, which lists every open FEMA 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 FEMA posting is on it, it will be there. If you can live near a FEMA duty station, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out, and the FEMA hub is that list narrowed to one agency.
On USAJOBS itself, use the agency filter and choose Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Department of Homeland Security, 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 appointment type and any deployment requirement are spelled out. Starting out? The entry-level listings page gathers federal postings at GS-7 and below across every agency.