Everyone is taking a pay cut. Why not the Feds??

[Anonymous]

as others have pointed out, many feds (lawyers, docs, other professionals particularly) could make way more money in the private sector. one of the tradeoffs for less money is stability and job security, including no pay cuts when the economy shits the bed.

pretty easy to understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:as others have pointed out, many feds (lawyers, docs, other professionals particularly) could make way more money in the private sector. one of the tradeoffs for less money is stability and job security, including no pay cuts when the economy shits the bed.

pretty easy to understand.

A little of that is wishful thinking.

[Anonymous]

The USG employs people in most locations and in most types of jobs. What’s to stop people from applying to be a Fed if they think the benefits are so great? I got in without any kind of special preference, and don’t regret leaving the private sector at all.

[Anonymous]

This is kind of amazing. OP wants feds to take a paycut just because other people are hurting and OP's instinct is to make sure feds hurt too. Like you're walking down the street and you see that someone has fallen over, so your reaction is to knock down some random person next to you so they can be on the ground too.

OP, if we institute National Punch A Fed In The Face Day (post social distancing, obv), will you leave our paychecks alone?

[Anonymous]

OP cannot stand someone not suffering as much as she is. But OP is just fine if it turns the other way around. What a miserable person.

[Anonymous]

People at FDA are working very hard, for many hours a day, directly on COVID 19 and you want to cut their pay for no good reason? That seems short sighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People at FDA are working very hard, for many hours a day, directly on COVID 19 and you want to cut their pay for no good reason? That seems short sighted.

I'm not involved in health, but the industry I regulate is taking a beating and there is a lot to do. I'd imagine it's similar at many like USDA, Treasury, IRS, State (lots of Americans being repatriated and trapped overseas, plus their own FSOs), Small Business Administration, etc. The federal government is putting up a massive front right now and feds are working to make it happen.

I have a friend at IRS that has worked 18 hour days for weeks getting stimulus checks out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering who this “everyone” is that are taking pay cuts.
Many people have been laid off and aren’t working. They get unemployment benefits. Although through unemployment benefits is less money than a job, It’s not a pay cut.
A handful of companies are reducing salaries. But that is not all.
And many companies are paying there people as normal. Look at all the tech companies. Not one of them is reducing pay.

Big laws, but their equity partners earn millions, junior partners $500K+, and first-year associates at $190K.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/872206.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering who this “everyone” is that are taking pay cuts.
Many people have been laid off and aren’t working. They get unemployment benefits. Although through unemployment benefits is less money than a job, It’s not a pay cut.
A handful of companies are reducing salaries. But that is not all.
And many companies are paying there people as normal. Look at all the tech companies. Not one of them is reducing pay.

Big laws, but their equity partners earn millions, junior partners $500K+, and first-year associates at $190K.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/872206.page

Zero sympathy for them. They're the same ones looking down on all of us poors in the good times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m wondering who this “everyone” is that are taking pay cuts.
Many people have been laid off and aren’t working. They get unemployment benefits. Although through unemployment benefits is less money than a job, It’s not a pay cut.
A handful of companies are reducing salaries. But that is not all.
And many companies are paying there people as normal. Look at all the tech companies. Not one of them is reducing pay.

Big laws, but their equity partners earn millions, junior partners $500K+, and first-year associates at $190K.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/872206.page

Zero sympathy for them. They're the same ones looking down on all of us poors in the good times.

Go read "on bull&hit jobs" or something titled like that. Most lawyers are not even necessary. They dont create anything of value. At least my pizza shop delivers me food. Lawyers just work long hours, complain, and have heart attacks, and at the end of the day nothing extra gets made.

[Anonymous]

Back in 2000 when I started with DoD out of college, during the dot com boom, it was like "why...you could be making so much more doing ....xyz..." That worked out well.

And in 2008

And now.

20 years in, seems like a career.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Gradual scale -- 5% for the less than 80K crowd -- and then ramping up (10%, 15%, 20%, 25%) for each 20 K increase in salary -- capped at 25%.

Then we can really say "We are all in it together"..

Bonus: money saved ($$$$) would help pay for the help needed by all the small businesses ...

If money is what you’re really after, far more would be saved if you rescind that ridiculous tax break in the stimulus bill.

You would be shooting small businesses in the foot long term if you reduce everyone's income.

He doesn’t even know about the tax change that allows millionaires to deduct unlimited sums of non business expenses.

Because he is too busy worrying about feds that make 100k.

Which tax change is that? I’d like to deduct unlimited sums of non business expenses

This one - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/14/coronavirus-law-congress-tax-change/

It only benefits the really wealthy though.

[Anonymous]

OP: Only ever look in someone else's bowl to make sure he has enough.

Your mama raised you wrong.

[Anonymous]

1) Not all feds are paid by taxpayers, I work for an agency where our entire appropriation is paid by the regulated entities.

2) I am part of a two fed family and both my DH and I are working crazy hours related to various aspects of the pandemic.

3) I do not know what the market would be for our skills post pandemic if there is a recession but I absolutely know that prior we were paid significantly less than private industry for what we do and one of the trade offs for lower pay is job security. Only now that that is worth something you think we should lose it? Not really a supporter of the free market are you?

[Anonymous]

Why would OP want to cut the pay of people “just because”? Keep in mind that when there have been government shutdowns the local economy has been hurt because the federal employees were not spending money at local businesses.