Thread: For feds, more get 6-figure salaries

Originally Posted by alevin

... choose not to move into a significantly higher housing/cost-of-living area just to get the next grade ... what benefit ... downgrade in preferred low-key lifestyle ...

well it's a lifestyle and financial trade off, but i've seen some do it temporarily after kids are stable on their own before retirement to pump up the high-three. probably a net-zero financially with additional rent/lease and expenses in the short-term, but then retire back to home turf with a bigger retirement benefit, might pay off over the long term. i'm a long way from those type of considerations.

Originally Posted by ChemEng

Hitting $100k is pretty common in the area of DoD where I work. (I'm still not there, but very close!). I'm guessing 2-3 more years until I cross that threshold.

As a point of comparison, I am 30 year old with these credentials (and associated relevant progressive work experience):
BS Chemical Engineering
MBA
Registered Professional Engineer
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Working on PhD in Applied Math

Wow, sounds like you're off to a great start, and have earned it, hang in there and you're in great shape. I sometimes wonder if i wasted, oh twenty years, in other pursuits, but's it's who i am and i wouldn't change the past, still working on improving the future though.

More than one way to skin a cat, just don't try herding them, learned that the hard way, a few times.

Originally Posted by burrocrat

More than one way to skin a cat, just don't try herding them, learned that the hard way, a few times.

I just bought a motorcycle (Honda VTX 1300R for those interested). I intend to invest a growing amount of time in its saddle in the near and far future. The cost of future credentials is too high relative to their potential gains compared to feeling of a good ride on a warm day through country roads...

Originally Posted by ChemEng

I just bought a motorcycle (Honda VTX 1300R for those interested). I intend to invest a growing amount of time in its saddle in the near and far future. The cost of future credentials is too high relative to their potential gains compared to feeling of a good ride on a warm day through country roads...

Ah, you're young yet. Plenty of time still to get your priorities all messed up. Very pretty bike, I was thinking about buying an electric bicycle for commuting for awhile when gas prices went so high last year. They're expensive tho!

Groups claim data on federal employees' salaries is misleading

According to federal workforce advocates, the numbers are misleading. "The data presented by USA Today is incomplete in many ways," Jessica Klement, legislative director for the Federal Managers Association, wrote in an e-mail. She said the data did not indicate how or why federal employees earned those salaries, and taken in context, the figures aren't as alarming as they seem at first glance.

"The USA Today article also disappoints by failing to recognize the growth in the number of highly paid political appointees and senior managers at the federal level and the far greater degree of professional jobs performed by the men and women of the federal workforce when contrasted with the private sector," Kelley said in a statement.


http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cf...friendlyvers=1

too bad they don't rebut by way of USA News editorial, so that the same readership has opportunity to get the "rest of the story". Who reads govexec except feds? Not John Q. public.