Military Hiring
Your Nation Still Needs You
We consider your service to America one of your most admirable qualities. Now, your prior military experience could qualify you to continue to serve your nation here at the IRS. With more than 100,000 employees, we have a wide variety of career opportunities for qualified applicants like you throughout the United States. So we’d like to encourage you to explore everything we have to offer — not just our careers, but also our benefits and work/life balance programs.
We’re Focused on Your Needs
We know you may have a number of specific questions about coming to work at the IRS. We’re happy to answer them to help you discover what a career with us may hold for you. Here are just a few things we’d like to share with you:
Annual Leave
If you are separated (but not retired) from the military, you will receive full annual leave credit for your service performed under honorable conditions. Generally, if you are retired from the military, you are not eligible for annual leave accrual credit.
Sick Leave
All of our full-time employees earn four hours of sick leave per every two-week pay period. That adds up to 13 sick-leave days per year.
Retirement Savings
If you contributed to a Thrift Savings Plan account while serving in the military, you may be able to merge most of your account balance once you’ve established your civilian account. Please note that tax-exempt balances (contributions from combat zone pay) cannot be transferred to a civilian account.
You will become eligible to receive Agency Automatic (1 percent) contributions and Agency Matching contributions (up to 5 percent) after you have served your new employee waiting period.
If you are separated (but not retired) from the military, you may use your uniformed service for credit toward civilian retirement. You must simply make a deposit of 7 percent (for Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS)) or 3 percent (for Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)) of your basic military pay to your retirement fund.
If you are retired from the military, you may use your uniformed service for credit toward civilian retirement by making a deposit to your retirement fund and waiving your military retirement pay at the time of your civilian retirement. If you want to keep your military retirement pay, you cannot use your military service towards your civilian retirement.
Dual Compensation
Retired military personnel no longer receive reductions to their retired or retainer pay when they are employed in a civilian office, or in a position with the U.S. Government.
Military Leave
IRS employees who serve in the National Guard or Reserves for either active duty or training will receive military leave benefits. Your type of deployment will determine how much leave you can accrue.
For more information, you can visit the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Web site, which includes an area dedicated to Veterans Employment Information.
