12-12-2012, 06:16 PM
more than a few anecdotes on private vs gubment pay for Derek:
A govt coworker has no college degree, age 38 and does data entry for our foia system. Makes 105k and doesnt have to work every other friday for no apparent reason.
My wife was the director of PR/Media at a private company. Equivalent job responsibility in government would more than double her salary.
Gov. PM that I work for makes 15-20k more than company PMs at other places Ive worked (and had much more responsibility)
Gov IT coworker makes over 10k more than I did at the exact same point in my career. And Im in a higher paid sector of IT (development vs networking)
A govt coworker has no degree and is paid 110k to occasionally update a CMS. She speaks almost no english. 2 days a week she "works" from home, 3 days a week she sleeps at her desk.
add on to that the fact they have the best health insurance you can get, they get a pension equivalent to 1% for every year they work plus 401k matching, they get obscene amounts of time off (my PM gets 8 weeks total PTO), free metro, free training, free grad degree/student loan repayment.
And thats not even covering the fact there is zero accountability if you dont want to do work. Which is very common.
Government employment is a sweet deal if you can get in. The only time its underpaid is at the very beginning- GS7 level, after that it ramps up very quickly as you can get a grade increase every year for the first few years. + generous cost of living raises.
getting in early as a student is the easiest way if youre not a veteran. Getting midlevel and up level government jobs if you arent a veteran is near impossible.
A govt coworker has no college degree, age 38 and does data entry for our foia system. Makes 105k and doesnt have to work every other friday for no apparent reason.
My wife was the director of PR/Media at a private company. Equivalent job responsibility in government would more than double her salary.
Gov. PM that I work for makes 15-20k more than company PMs at other places Ive worked (and had much more responsibility)
Gov IT coworker makes over 10k more than I did at the exact same point in my career. And Im in a higher paid sector of IT (development vs networking)
A govt coworker has no degree and is paid 110k to occasionally update a CMS. She speaks almost no english. 2 days a week she "works" from home, 3 days a week she sleeps at her desk.
add on to that the fact they have the best health insurance you can get, they get a pension equivalent to 1% for every year they work plus 401k matching, they get obscene amounts of time off (my PM gets 8 weeks total PTO), free metro, free training, free grad degree/student loan repayment.
And thats not even covering the fact there is zero accountability if you dont want to do work. Which is very common.
Government employment is a sweet deal if you can get in. The only time its underpaid is at the very beginning- GS7 level, after that it ramps up very quickly as you can get a grade increase every year for the first few years. + generous cost of living raises.
getting in early as a student is the easiest way if youre not a veteran. Getting midlevel and up level government jobs if you arent a veteran is near impossible.