Independent reference · est. 1998
Federal government jobs, pay and careers — explained in plain English.
Current GS pay tables, how federal hiring actually works, and what each agency offers — written for job hunters, not HR insiders.
FederalJobs.net is a reference guide, not a job board. Nearly every federal application happens on USAJOBS.gov, the government's official job board — we show you how to arrive prepared.
Everything on the site, in six sections
Every page lives in one of these sections — no more hunting through a wall of links.
Exams & Hiring Process
Only about 1 in 5 federal jobs still requires a written exam — here's how the real process works.
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Retirement & Benefits
Pensions, agency transfers, telework and the rest of the federal package.
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Most-used resources
The pages readers come back to, one click from the front door.
Latest updates
Every money page carries a visible "updated" date — this strip shows the newest.
Each date is the day that page's figures were last rebuilt from the official source files.
A guide with 28 years of service
FederalJobs.net was created in 1998 by Dennis Damp, a retired federal manager and the author of “The Book of U.S. Government Jobs.” Twenty-eight years on, the mission hasn't changed: explain federal pay, hiring and careers in plain English, with every figure taken straight from official OPM sources.
Pay tables are transcribed from the Office of Personnel Management's official salary files and re-checked against the source PDFs each pay year.