Anyone interested in a challenging career, with job security and excellent pay, needs to explore the lucrative Postal Service job market. Adding benefits, overtime, and premiums, the average hourly rate is $26.19, or $54,481 a year. Executives, professionals, and administrative employees earn between $20,875 to $161,200 per year. The Postal Service employs 860,000 workers in hundreds of job categories for positions at over 39,000 post offices, branches, and community post offices throughout the United States. Approximately 40,000 postal workers are hired each year to backfill for retirements, transfers and for employees who choose to leave for other reasons. This new edition includes updated information, two new chapters and a new appendix covering Postal Inspector positions, high paying related federal civil service occupations, and step-by-step guidance for those interested in applying for administrative and professional non-tested positions with the Post Office. Post Office Jobs is a one-stop resource for those interested in working for the Postal Service.

It presents what jobs are available, where they are, and how to get one. The only Postal Service career guide with an Internet connection at http://federaljobs.net that covers All Occupations including professional, administrative, mail carrier, maintenance, technical, and clerical. Book jacket.