Know the job before you take the exam.
Visual career maps for India's government jobs. Each guide maps the full 30 years: the pay, the postings, and the promotions at every stage. Plus the tradeoffs most guides skip.
Career Maps
Government careers, mapped end to end
From the day you join to the day you retire: pay, postings, promotions and the tradeoffs at every stage.
Banking
SBI PO
The fastest banking ladder in India — branch to GM in 25 years.
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IBPS PO
One exam, eleven banks — the wider ladder into public sector banking.
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SSC CGL
One exam, twenty postings — the most variable government career start.
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IAS
Rank 1 to retirement: the 35-year arc of India’s most-watched job.
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RBI Grade B
India’s central bank officer track — small batches, premium pay, policy work.
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Station Master
The 30-year arc of Indian Railways’ most visible job.
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SSC CHSL
The 12th-pass entry into the government — clerical now, gazetted later.
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Income Tax Inspector
Inspector to Assistant Commissioner — twenty years inside India’s revenue machine.
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KVS TGT
Teach anywhere in India — central-school postings, pension at the end.
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LIC AAO
India’s biggest insurer — its steadiest officer career, by a long mile.
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PSU Executive Trainee
GATE into a Maharatna — strong pay from day one, a secure climb to mid-management.
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Govt Primary School Teacher
Teach Classes 1–5 in a government school — deep meaning, real security, and the flattest ladder we’ve mapped.
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State TGT / PGT Teacher
Teach a subject you love to older students, with security and a humane schedule. Unlike the primary teacher, you can climb — TGT to PGT to Principal. Just know it’s slow, mostly seniority-bound, and the door you enter (TGT or PGT) sets how far you’ll go.
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CAPF Assistant Commandant
Clear the UPSC CAPF exam, lead a company on the border or in internal security. Real command young — but go in knowing the senior chairs were long reserved for IPS officers, a wall the courts only began breaking in 2025.
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State Police Sub-Inspector
Clear the state exam, run a police station, wield genuine local power in your home state. Just know the truth up front: the SP and DGP you picture are a different exam — yours tops out at Inspector, maybe DSP.
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Inspector of Posts
Clear SSC CGL, pin on the Inspector badge, and run 60–70 post offices across your patch — for standard Level 7 pay, a life built on touring, and an institution quietly reinventing itself.
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Coast Guard Assistant Commandant
Clear the CGCAT, train at Ezhimala, command a ship. A real uniformed officer's life on India's coast — minus the Military Service Pay a Navy peer takes home.
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Forest Range Officer
Clear the state PSC, run your own range in a year — then spend the next 20 waiting for the promotion that IFS officers skip entirely.
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ISRO Scientist/Engineer
Clear the ICRB exam, work on actual launches, and get promoted on what you do rather than on a vacancy — for a salary that is a fraction of what your degree earns in private tech.
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Nursing Officer
Clear NORCET, pin on the badge, and care for patients through every night shift — for central pay that beats most state hospitals by a wide margin, and a job that asks for more than it ever shows on the payslip.
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Civil Judge
Win the PCS-J, sit in your own court within a year, and earn more on day one than most government officers do in a decade. Just know the truth about High Court: it is not a promotion — and you will need three years at the bar before you can even apply.
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Naib Tehsildar / Tehsildar
Run a tehsil. Settle land disputes. Sign mutation orders. A gazetted state-cadre officer with authority over land records from the day you join.
View mapWhy visual?
Every other site explaining these careers is a wall of text built for search rankings, not for understanding. A visual map respects the question someone is asking: what will my life look like inside this job, ten years in?
Who's this for?
Aspirants who can already clear the exam, but want to know what the job looks like by year five, year fifteen, year thirty. Postings, salary, named tradeoffs. Not syllabus marketing.