As of Oct 7, 2026, our inventory holds 152 open federal civilian postings from National Guard units that allow either remote work or telework. Fully remote among them: 0. Posted in the last 30 days: 126. 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 the hiring organization that posted it. Guard postings appear on USAJOBS under three organization names, Army National Guard Units, Air National Guard Units and a second spelling, Air National Guard, and this page gathers all three. The numbers refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow.
These are civilian jobs, not enlistment
The listings on this page are federal civilian positions that support the National Guard. They are hired through USAJOBS and paid on federal pay scales, and applying for one is not joining the military. The work is the administrative, technical, logistical and professional support that keeps a Guard unit ready: human resources, finance, IT, logistics, training coordination, security, aircraft and vehicle maintenance, medical administration and legal work, among others.
Some of these civilian jobs come with a military condition attached; the announcement says which, and the dual status section below explains how to read it.
Fully remote or telework eligible?
Two tiers decide where you can live. A posting is fully remote when the hiring organization 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 allows some of the week from home. We never merge the two, because the difference is whether you must live near a particular armory or air base. Here is today’s split across every Guard posting we hold:
Read the fully remote figure carefully. If it reads zero, that is not an error in our data; it is how Guard units post. Their civilian work is tied to a specific state’s units, armories, hangars and flight lines, and a technician who must also serve in the unit cannot do that from another state. Telework with a fixed duty station is the arrangement that fits. Even then, an analyst can plausibly work part of the week from home while an aircraft mechanic cannot, so treat the duty station as the real constraint and the telework flag as a detail to confirm at interview. The remote vs. telework guide explains what a telework agreement does and does not promise.
Which Guard organizations post them
The Guard hiring organizations with open postings in our inventory right now are:
- Army National Guard Units 75 listings
- Air National Guard Units 65 listings
- Air National Guard 12 listings
Each name links to its hub, which lists every posting we hold for it with the tier, advertised pay and closing date. The names are USAJOBS organization names, not separate agencies. Each state’s and territory’s Guard posts its own announcements, but USAJOBS files them under these shared names rather than by state. “Air National Guard Units” carries the state units’ postings; “Air National Guard” is a separate organization name used mostly for headquarters-level staff positions. The state and duty station are shown on each job page and in the announcement, and the location filter on USAJOBS narrows a search to one state.
What kinds of work they post
The occupational categories with the most open Guard postings in our inventory right now are:
- Information Technology Management 14 listings
- Miscellaneous Administration and Program 11 listings
- Security Administration 10 listings
- Human Resources Management 9 listings
- Miscellaneous Transportation/Mobile Equipment Maintenance 9 listings
- Logistics Management 8 listings
Each category links to its hub, which shows the same occupation across every agency we track. Across all Guard postings, distinct occupational categories open today: 57. The spread is wide because a Guard unit has its own personnel office, finance section, supply chain, maintenance shops, clinic and legal office. The families to expect, whether or not they are on today’s list, are program and administrative specialists, human resources specialists, IT specialists, logistics managers, financial analysts, security specialists, training technicians, and the aircraft and vehicle trades.
What they pay
Advertised pay on Guard postings we hold currently runs from $42,528 to $187,093 a year, with a typical figure of $87,946. The GS grades advertised span 5–14.
A word on “typical.” A federal announcement advertises a pay range, not a single salary, so for each posting we take the midpoint of its advertised range; the typical figure is the median of those midpoints across every Guard 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.
Two pay systems meet on this page. Administrative, technical and professional jobs are on the General Schedule, and the grade range above counts those. The trades, such as aircraft mechanics and electricians, are on the Federal Wage System, which pays by the hour under wage grades of its own, so those postings are in the pay figures but not in the GS grade range. The GS pay scale guide applies to the GS postings alone. A dual status technician’s military pay for drill and annual training is separate from, and in addition to, the civilian salary.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 126 Guard postings. In the last 7 days: 39. Most recent posting date: Oct 6, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace. Because every state’s Guard hires separately, many announcements are for a single vacancy at a single location. Some are open until filled and stay for months; others close in two weeks. A closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh, so check the hubs every few days, newest first.
Dual status technicians and the membership requirement
This is the part to read twice. Many Guard civilian positions are dual status technician jobs. A dual status technician is a federal civilian employee who must also be a member of the National Guard as a condition of employment, serving in the same unit in a military grade compatible with the civilian job, and wearing the uniform at work. The announcement says so plainly, gives the compatible military grade range, and sometimes limits who may apply to current members of that state’s Guard or to people willing to join it. If membership ends, the civilian job ends with it. For someone unwilling to serve, those postings are not available, however well the duties match.
Other Guard civilian positions carry no membership requirement at all. They are ordinary federal appointments, often labeled Title 5 on the announcement, open under the usual federal hiring rules, and they are the ones to target if you do not intend to serve. The distinction is always written into the announcement’s conditions of employment, so read that section before the duties on every Guard posting.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to be in the National Guard to apply? For dual status technician jobs, yes, or you must be willing and eligible to join. For Title 5 Guard positions, no. The announcement states which it is.
Can I apply to a different state’s Guard? You can apply anywhere the announcement’s “open to” section allows, but many Guard announcements are limited to current members of that state’s Guard, and a dual status job means serving in that state’s unit. Read the area of consideration before you spend time on the application.
How to search for these
Start with the three Guard hubs, Army National Guard Units, Air National Guard Units and Air National Guard, which together list every open Guard posting we hold with its tier, duty station, advertised pay and closing date, refreshed daily from USAJOBS. Open the postings whose duty station is in the state that matters to you, since each posting belongs to one state’s Guard. If fully remote is non-negotiable, the fully remote list is the complete set across every agency; if a Guard posting is on it, it will be there. If you can live near an armory or air base, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out. Every listing links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply and where the membership requirement and area of consideration are spelled out. The federal resume guide covers the application itself, and veterans and current Guard members should read the veterans’ preference guide before applying.