About GovHealthJobs

Public-sector hiring in the United States is unusually hard to search. Jobs are scattered across a federal API, hundreds of state and county sites, and dozens of hospital systems, each with its own vocabulary. Pay is a matter of public record but buried in fiscal-year PDFs. Licensing rules that decide whether you can take a job at all live on fifty different nursing board websites, in fifty different formats. Most job boards handle none of this — they index the posting, drop everything that made it comprehensible, and move on.

GovHealthJobs exists to put that context back. There are four things on this site:

Job listings

Federal jobs from the USAJOBS API, Veterans Health Administration positions across VHA hospitals and outpatient facilities, and public-health and public-hospital jobs from sources that allow indexing. Listings keep the details that actually decide an application — GS grade, pay plan, closing date, security clearance, veterans' preference eligibility — instead of flattening them into a generic card. Every listing links back to the official posting, and every application is made there. We never collect a résumé and we never submit an application on your behalf.

Public salary records

Public-sector pay is published, and it should be usable. We compile salary records by jurisdiction and job title from official releases — federal pay tables, state and municipal disclosures — and attach them to the listings and guides they bear on, so the number you see next to a job is one you can trace.

State licensing and continuing education

Nurse licensing requirements, endorsement rules, renewal cycles and continuing-education hours, state by state, in tables you can compare rather than fifty pages you have to read. Each state's entry records where the requirement came from and when it was last verified against the board's own site.

Federal hiring mechanics

Guides to how federal hiring actually works — the GS scale and step increases, what a federal résumé needs that a private one does not, how veterans' preference is applied, what happens between "referred" and an offer. Written to be read once and actually understood, not to rank for a search term.

How we handle facts

One editorial principle runs through all of it: every figure carries a source and a verification date. A salary figure names the release it came from. A licensing requirement names the board page and the date someone checked it. A job listing shows when we last confirmed it was still open. If we cannot attribute something, it does not go on the page.

Verification is on a schedule, not on a whim. Licensing requirements are re-checked quarterly, salary records annually against the fiscal-year publications they come from, and hiring guides twice a year. Records that fall behind their cadence are flagged internally and either re-verified or pulled. This is unglamorous and it is most of the work.

The same principle governs what we index in the first place. We only take listings from sources that are free and public or that we have licensed, and where a source's terms forbid automated collection we exclude it permanently and publish the reason. The coverage page lists every source, its status, and — where it applies — why it is excluded.

What we are not

GovHealthJobs is a private, independent service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the federal government, the Office of Personnel Management, USAJOBS, the Department of Veterans Affairs, any state or local government, any nursing board, or any hospital system. We do not process applications, make hiring decisions, influence them, or have any visibility into them. We do not charge job seekers, and we do not sell your details to recruiters.

Where this site and an official source disagree, the official source is right. Tell us and we will fix it — corrections are welcome from anyone, and we do not require you to explain why you are asking.

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