How these figures are counted
This site republishes the United States federal government's own register of open positions. It adds no listings of its own, and it does not accept applications. Everything below is what stands between that register and the numbers on these pages.
Where the data comes from
Every listing is drawn from the USAJOBS API, published by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The register was last read on 17 September 2026. Job titles, pay ranges, grades, closing dates and locations are reproduced as OPM publishes them. Where this site and the announcement disagree, the announcement is right.
Why the national total is not 10,000
Asked for every open position at once, the API answers 10000 exactly. That is a
paging cap, not a count: fourteen states alone sum to 13,248. So the register here is gathered one
state at a time, where the figures are real — the largest, California, returns 1,616 — and the
national figure is the number of distinct announcements actually held:
12,986.
Why the register is gathered four ways
Reading it one state at a time is not enough, and the way that fails is quiet. A fully remote
announcement is filed at Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job) with no state at all, so no
query for a state can ever return it. Gathered by state alone, every remote posting was missing —
and with them 500 announcements in total, about four per cent of the register, absent with nothing
whatsoever to show they had gone.
So the register is gathered on four independent axes — place, hiring path, appointment type and work schedule — and combined. Each is checked against the others. A hole in any one of them now shows up as a disagreement between axes, instead of as a smaller number that looks perfectly reasonable. The announcements with no fixed place are listed at Remote.
What "jobs in this town" means
USAJOBS publishes two quite different things through one feed. Most announcements name one or two real places. A few hundred are nationwide public notices, open to applicants almost anywhere: 611 of them, one naming 1,153 separate locations. Together they account for the great majority of every location mention in the feed.
Counted together, they distort every place page. Phoenix would read as 505 open positions when 414 of those are blanket notices that merely accept applicants from Phoenix. A town of nine hundred people would appear to have four hundred federal openings.
So an announcement naming more than 15 towns is not filed under any of them. It is counted separately and listed at Nationwide. Every place page states the two figures apart: positions based there, and announcements also open there. Both are true. Neither is the other.
Where the cutoff came from
It is not a round number chosen for tidiness. The location counts are lumpy: sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen locations account for twenty-five announcements between them — and then twenty accounts for two hundred and eight.
Those two hundred and eight are not truncated lists. They share one standard twenty-metro roster — Salt Lake City, Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Washington, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Boston, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Albuquerque, New York, Oklahoma City, Portland, Austin — used mostly by Air Force career-training announcements. A roster like that says any of our twenty hubs, not this job is in Phoenix. Counting it per city took Phoenix from 91 positions to 316.
So the cutoff sits in the empty gap below that cliff. Below it, announcements naming a handful of hospitals or field offices stay filed under each — that is a real multi-site vacancy. Above it, the location list has stopped describing where the work is. It is the only judgement on this site that changes a headline number, which is why it is written down here.
Closing dates
Unlike most directories, this one describes something that expires. A federal announcement closes on a fixed date, most within a month, and cannot be applied to afterwards. Every record here carries its closing date; anything past it is dropped when the pages are built and again when a page is served, so a stale snapshot can go quiet but cannot show a job that has closed. The register currently runs to 16 September 2027.
What is not here
- 461 positions outside the United States, in 24 countries — mostly on bases in Germany, Japan and Korea. Federal agencies advertise them; this site covers the fifty states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories. Positions with no fixed place at all are kept, at Remote.
- Announcements internal to an agency that OPM does not publish.
- Anything past its closing date.
- Any listing not in the federal register — no employers pay to appear here, because there is nothing to pay for.
Applying
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