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Nadia Belamin
Nadia Belamin is a pen-name identity used by Federal Hiring Data for data-backed reporting focused on federal job seekers, hiring processes, pay, and career questions.
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Aug 18, 2026TSP Loan and Hardship-Withdrawal Use Rose in 2025TSP loan use reached 9.5% of active FERS participants and hardship-withdrawal use reached 4.9%, even as participation, deferrals and account balances also increased.Aug 18, 2026Remote Is Not Telework: What 93,496 Federal Announcements ShowOnly 142 of 93,496 analyzed 2026 announcements were confirmed remote. Another 12,860 were telework eligible but not remote.Aug 18, 2026Where Federal Job Announcements Start at GS-7 or BelowThe USAJOBS archive contains 612,439 public announcements whose advertised GS range began at GS-7 or below, led by clerical and health-support series.Aug 18, 2026Federal 1811 Hiring by the Numbers: 12,376 Criminal Investigator AnnouncementsA March 2017-August 2026 archive shows where 12,376 Criminal Investigation series announcements appeared, what they paid and how often 2026 records named a clearance level.Aug 18, 2026How Common Are Named Security-Clearance Levels in Federal Job Announcements?Among 93,496 analyzed 2026 announcements, 21,360 named Confidential, Secret, Top Secret or Top Secret/SCI. Unknown values remain separate.Aug 18, 2026How Long USAJOBS Announcements Stay Open: 3.09 Million RecordsAcross 3,085,636 announcements, the median application window was 14 days and 566,705 closed within a week.Aug 18, 2026Federal 2210 Jobs by the Numbers: 120,410 IT Announcements Since 2017The archive contains 120,410 Information Technology Management announcements, with a $122,683 median advertised annual maximum among valid salary ranges.Aug 18, 2026 / Data as of Dec 31, 2025Who Could Apply? Public vs. Internal Federal Job Announcements in 2025Among 95,843 announcements closing from April through November 2025, 55.4% named the public and 39.9% named internal agency candidates, with substantial overlap among eligibility paths.Aug 17, 2026What Direct Hire Means on USAJOBS, and What 16,320 Labeled Announcements RevealEngineering, IT and contracting led a conservative cohort of USAJOBS announcements with Direct Hire in the title. A 14-day median application window still does not measure selection speed.Aug 16, 2026 / Data as of Feb 28, 2025Three-Quarters of February 2025 Federal Announcements Closed Within Two WeeksAbout 74.9 percent of February 2025 federal announcements in the archive closed within 14 days, reinforcing how quickly many USAJOBS postings moved.Aug 16, 2026 / Data as of Feb 28, 2025Nursing and Medical Officer Roles Stood Out in February 2025 Federal HiringNurse was the second-largest occupational series in the February 2025 archive, while Medical Officer postings carried the highest average salary ceilings among large series.Aug 16, 2026 / Data as of Jan 10, 2025Medical Officer Roles Set the Highest Federal Salary Ceilings in Early January 2025Early January 2025 salary records showed Medical Officer announcements with the highest average salary ceilings among sizable federal occupation series.Aug 16, 2026 / Data as of Jan 17, 2025Most Early January 2025 Federal Announcements Closed Within Two WeeksA Jan. 17 snapshot shows a median federal announcement duration of 13 days, with about 62.8 percent closing within two weeks.