Each panel shows monthly federal hires brought in through the Pathways Programs — the formal early-career federal hiring pipelines: Intern, Student Trainee, Recent Grad, and PMF (Presidential Management Fellow). The dashed red line marks the federal hiring freeze (executive order signed Jan 20, 2025).
Each bar shows actions whose effective date falls in that month, not when OPM processed them. Late-filed actions are correctly attributed to their effective month even if they appear in a later monthly publish.