At what age did you make it to the maximum GS scale?

[Anonymous]

Anyone before age 40?

[Anonymous]

I was GS-15 at 36 or 37? I'm an attorney.

[Anonymous]

I was 33. Started as a 9.

[Anonymous]

31. Attorney

[Anonymous]

38. came in as a GS-15 step 10

[Anonymous]

Not attorney. Management. I think I was 42 or 43.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:38. came in as a GS-15 step 10

So no advancement or pay increase for 20 plus years unless you leave before retirement?

[Anonymous]

Hired as 15-10 at 33.

[Anonymous]

42

[Anonymous]

Lawyers get there faster than other job series

[Anonymous]

33. Started as a GS7.

[Anonymous]

29, at OMB there is a career ladder from 9-15 for non-supervisory program examiners so if you start as a 9 at age 24 you can be a 15 when you’re 29. It’s absurd, a big reason that OMB is so highly graded even for non-supervisors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:29, at OMB there is a career ladder from 9-15 for non-supervisory program examiners so if you start as a 9 at age 24 you can be a 15 when you’re 29. It’s absurd, a big reason that OMB is so highly graded even for non-supervisors.

Wow! What kind of backgrounds do program examiners need to have? My PhD has only gotten me to a 13 in my late 30s; 15s are high level managerial leadership and high level headaches where I am).

[Anonymous]

Yuck, the idea of grade/step is so foreign to us in the private sector. But, it’s a simple low risk concept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was GS-15 at 36 or 37? I'm an attorney.

+1
Started at 29, GS-15 by mid-30s