What is a gs14 equivalent in the private sector?

[Anonymous]

Is it a manager level? Director? Senior director? Vice President?

[Anonymous]

Such a lazy question.
Depends on responsibilities of that 14 job and the responsibilities of the private sector job.
Non supervisor individual contributor GS 14 is not the same as branch or division chief GS 14 who has millions of dollars to account for and has other supervisors reporting to them.

[Anonymous]

I’d say senior manger - pre director

[Anonymous]

What industry? I’m a scientist, so I’d say a GS14 scientist with a PhD is an associate professor. But there are GS14s who work in law, administration, auditing, etc. Not everything has a direct parallel to finance or business.

[Anonymous]

This may also depend on the job role. Lots of more senior people in government manage projects (contracts) without supervising. I’m a non-supervisory GS15 (sorry not 14) responsible for about $500M a year, which may not be the sort of job that exists in the private sector.

[Anonymous]

This is highly dependent of on the field and the role of the GS-14, but I’d say in my field (IT) it’s equivalent to a Program Manager or a Lead of something, maybe a Team Leader, but not an upper manager. Other places have GS-14 leasing entire divisions of large organizations.

[Anonymous]

There is no necessary correlation. Different employers use different titles for relatively similar responsibilities. Compensation is the most direct way to infer equivalence, not GS grade level, because duties vary so widely in both environments for any given level of comp.

[Anonymous]

It depends as others have said. My DH is a GS14 making somewhere around $155K. In many job sectors (finance, marketing, HR) in this area that could easily be a director level. Obviously the situation differs if you are talking about a law firm or sales role...

One thing to consider from a compensation POV if you are a GS14 looking to go private is the value of your retirement/FERS and ability to buy health insurance cheaper than private would be when you retire. Depending on your tenure the value of these should be considered when comparing private sector comp/benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no necessary correlation. Different employers use different titles for relatively similar responsibilities. Compensation is the most direct way to infer equivalence, not GS grade level, because duties vary so widely in both environments for any given level of comp.

+1. Look at the pay charts for the locality you live in and compare the salaries to private sector positions. FWIW, for protocol purposes, a GS-14 is equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in the military.

[Anonymous]

I’m in IT consulting at a large federal contractor. My husband is a GS-14. At my company a 14 is equivalent to a manager. A 15 is equivalent to a Sr Manager. Directors are equivalent to SES.

[Anonymous]

Manager

Directors and Vice Presidents are SES level.

[Anonymous]

No such thing OP. Every agency is different, every program is different. We have a lot of non-sup GS 15s and many junior members at GS-13/14 level. All working staff level. Other agencies, may have GS-14 Office Directors so it depends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no necessary correlation. Different employers use different titles for relatively similar responsibilities. Compensation is the most direct way to infer equivalence, not GS grade level, because duties vary so widely in both environments for any given level of comp.

+1. Look at the pay charts for the locality you live in and compare the salaries to private sector positions. FWIW, for protocol purposes, a GS-14 is equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in the military.

While true, that’s nuts. My husband is a 14 and he’s a PhD scientist with 0 direct reports. My neighbor is a lieutenant colonel and he commands like 300 people and flies all over to train specialized pilots. I love my husband and value his contribution to his agency and mission, but my neighbor has WAY more responsibility.