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A short, vetted list — where to find jobs, what they pay, and who to know. Everything’s free unless it’s marked Paid.

Where to find the jobs
USAJOBS

The official portal for every federal opening, with resume tools and saved-search alerts. Its internship portal, intern.usajobs.gov, filters the same listings to student and recent-graduate roles.

Senate & House Employment Bulletins

The official vacancy lists published by the Senate and House placement offices.

DC Government Careers

The District government's job portal, covering internships and full-time roles across DC city agencies.

Daybook

A free job board for policy, government-affairs, and campaign roles, with salary data by job title drawn from its listings.

Hiring.cafe

A search engine that indexes listings directly from company career pages, with detailed filters.

Idealist

A job board for nonprofit and advocacy work, listing internships, full-time roles, and volunteer positions.

Tom Manatos JobsPaid

A subscription job board for Capitol Hill, political, and public-affairs roles.

Heritage Job Bank

A twice-weekly list of conservative openings across the administration, Capitol Hill, policy organizations, and the private sector, ranging from internships to senior roles.

Discover Diplomacy

A directory of 140+ international-affairs internships, fellowships, and academic programs, grouped by type and tagged by region.

Getting hired by the government
Go Government

The Partnership for Public Service's guide to the federal hiring process, covering applications, resumes, and security clearances.

r/usajobs Application Guide

A community-maintained wiki explaining the federal resume format and each step of the USAJOBS application.

Pathways & Presidential Management Fellows

The official site for the PMF program, plus the Pathways internship and recent-graduate hiring tracks.

Pay Our Interns

An advocacy organization publishing a database of paid internships and reports on intern pay across government.

What it pays
LegiStormPaid

A subscription database of congressional staff salaries, biographies, and office expenditures, drawn from public disclosures.

OPM Pay & Leave

The official federal pay tables, showing salary by General Schedule grade, step, and locality.

Congressional Management Foundation

A nonprofit publishing research on congressional staff pay, workload, and office operations.

Researching an office before you apply
Congress.gov

The official legislative record: members, committees, bills, and voting history.

GovTrack

An independent tracker for bills and voting records, with statistical summaries of each member's legislative activity.

OpenSecrets

A database of campaign finance and lobbying disclosures, searchable by member, donor, industry, and race.

Building your network
Congressional staff associations & affinity groups

The Committee on House Administration's official list of registered Congressional Member and Staff Organizations.

Young Government Leaders

A professional association for early-career federal employees, running training, events, and local chapters.

Partnership for Public Service events

A dated calendar of the Partnership for Public Service's public events and programs.