Editing Excepted service (section)

=== Office of Personnel Management schedules ===
Some service positions are classified by the [[United States Office of Personnel Management|Office of Personnel Management]] into lettered categories, although not all excepted service authorities fall into this classification:

* Schedule A appointments are "impracticable to examine".  They are used to appoint specific position types such as attorneys, chaplains, physicians; when there is a critical hiring need or the position is in a remote location; and to hire disabled applicants.  In addition to this, as of 2016, there were 122 agency-unique Schedule A hiring authorities.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Federal Hiring Flexibilities Resource Center|url=https://archive.opm.gov/Strategic_Management_of_Human_Capital/fhfrc/FLX05020.asp|access-date=2019-03-04|website=U.S. Office of Personnel Management}}</ref>
* Schedule B appointments are "not practicable to hold a competitive examination".  Schedule B appointees must meet the qualification standards for the job.  As of 2016, there were 36 agency-unique Schedule B hiring authorities.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
* [[Schedule C appointment]]s are political appointments to confidential or policy-setting positions.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
* Schedule D appointments are those where competitive service requirements "make impracticable the adequate recruitment of sufficient numbers".  These are known as the [[Pathways Programs]], which consist of the Internship Program, Recent Graduates Program, and [[Presidential Management Fellows Program]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
*Schedule E appointments are [[administrative law judge]]s.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2018-07-10|title=Executive Order Excepting Administrative Law Judges from the Competitive Service|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-excepting-administrative-law-judges-competitive-service/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120202406/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-excepting-administrative-law-judges-competitive-service/|archive-date=2021-01-20|access-date=2020-10-24|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Schedule Policy/Career appointment|Schedule Policy/Career appointments]], formerly known as Schedule F appointments apply to "confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions."<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2020-10-21|title=Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-creating-schedule-f-excepted-service/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130145607/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-creating-schedule-f-excepted-service/|archive-date=2021-01-30|access-date=2020-10-24|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
Schedules A and B were created by the [[Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act|Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883]], Schedule C was created in 1956, and Schedule D was created in 2012.<ref name=":0" />  Schedule E was created in 2018.<ref name=":2" />  Schedule F was created in October 2020 and repealed in January 2021,<ref name=":4" /><ref>[https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/22/executive-order-protecting-the-federal-workforce/ www.whitehouse.gov]</ref> and was reinstated in January 2025.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2025-01-21 |title=Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-accountability-to-policy-influencing-positions-within-the-federal-workforce/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=The White House |language=en-US}}</ref>