If you love your job, pays well, and flexible

[Anonymous]

Budget Analyst for the DOD. The job is interesting and you're directly involved in the defense budget process. The pay is good and we have high GS levels in the career field.

Cons: The bottom ranks of the DOD are filled with window lickers who are protected from the real world and not interested in promoting. Most didn't go to a real college and are the online school type. The majority wouldn't be allowed to sniff the door knobs of private sector companies. So, you have to trod your way through the lower ranks and deal with the incompetent and lazy. Otherwise, it's great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No Sh*t. I worked in one of those agencies and still do, but not as an attorney. The attorneys where I worked were given very generous raises and bonuses yearly..much more than the other rank and file. I mean obscene - $5,000, $6,000, $7,000 bonuses. No one is worth that is those places. It was very demoralizing.

that's too funny b/c you do realize that most bonuses at law firms are in 10K multiples, right? For example, my first year bonus in 2000 was $15K.

also, to the PP who said that attorneys working for financial regulators make too much, they obviously don't know that the majority of these attorneys took 50 to 60% pay cuts to work in the govt. obviously not all govt attorney had the possibility of working at a law firm, but that's what the market actually paid some of the ones who left the private sector to join the govt.

If you really want to be pissed, consider investment bankers who are largely responsible for the previous financial crisis. My SIL got a 100K bonus her first year at a highly prestigious investment bank, but I seriously doubt anyone is worth that kind of money.

[Anonymous]

also, to the PP who said that attorneys working for financial regulators make too much, they obviously don't know that the majority of these attorneys took 50 to 60% pay cuts to work in the govt. obviously not all govt attorney had the possibility of working at a law firm, but that's what the market actually paid some of the ones who left the private sector to join the govt.

They also get better hours in the governmennt , several days of telework a week, and by and large, a 9 to 5 schedule. Bank Examiners, Financial Analysts, Economists, HR People, Administrative People don't see those kinds of increases/bonuses in those places. Many of them work damn hard too. No one is crying for the attorneys because they took pay cuts. We need to scale down the pay of all of these overpaid people and put more equity into these places. How to do that - well, I don't know. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Also, many of the attorneys in those agencies who are receiving those huge bonuses and sky high salaries (in comparison to other multi-degreed professionals there) could never hack it in a private law firm. But, they pull down those bonuses there. It isn't like the private law firms are clamoring for the ones I have in mind.

[Anonymous]

Salary plus bonus at one of the federal regulators for a general attorney.. Come on.. NO one deserves this...

$222,468.00

$9,549.00



WASHINGTON

GENERAL ATTORNEY

2013

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Salary plus bonus at one of the federal regulators for a general attorney.. Come on.. NO one deserves this...

$222,468.00

$9,549.00



WASHINGTON

GENERAL ATTORNEY

2013

what is your basis for suggesting nobody deserves that pay? the government is not immune to the market - they have to pay in order to get top talent.

[Anonymous]

you also realize that $9.5K is only slightly over 4% of their base. that is not a very large bonus by just about anybody's standards.

[Anonymous]

No other profession in the agency I quote from gets these kind of bonuses. ONly the attorneys. Many people don't get ANY Bonus whatsover there. Let alone a $10,000 one. Nada nothing. And it isn't because they are poor performers. This bonus came on top of a 5% salary increase. Give me a break. This is because attorneys feel they can push people around with those stupid 3 years of law school they do..joke. Have no respect for them.

[Anonymous]

At my agency there is no such thing as a "general attorney" and anyone who is a star would be getting far more in "bonus" as % of pay, reflective of performance. Also other types of processionals also get bonuses every year, though not all positions do. It's generally reflective of the relevant market.

[Anonymous]

The irony is that many of them are leisurely reading the newspaper or shooting the breeze for their handsome salaries and bonuses. Yep, I would love a job like a federal financial regulatory attorney too. What a racket!

[Anonymous]

Also other types of processionals also get bonuses every year, though not all positions do. It's generally reflective of the relevant market.

Yes, of course. Other people get bonuses of $250.00, $500.00, and if they are lucky or an especially good a** kisser, $1000.00, but few see the amounts given to the attorneys in the regulatory agencies. Just a joke and an insult to others who work so hard. Broken system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Attorney with independent and not taxpayer funded agency in a highly specialized and technical area. Make around $200K (10+ years out of law school). AWS (when work demands allow), can usually take vacation when I want. Sometimes work long hours, but usually have substantial control over how and when I get out of business hours work done.

Are you at Ex-Im Bank? INVU!

[Anonymous]

Accountant at federal agency. Make over 100k, telework 2x a week, flexible schedule, friendly coworkers, challenging work. There are a lot of long hours, but have the flexibility to put in additional time from home on evenings and weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:also, to the PP who said that attorneys working for financial regulators make too much, they obviously don't know that the majority of these attorneys took 50 to 60% pay cuts to work in the govt. obviously not all govt attorney had the possibility of working at a law firm, but that's what the market actually paid some of the ones who left the private sector to join the govt.

They also get better hours in the governmennt , several days of telework a week, and by and large, a 9 to 5 schedule. Bank Examiners, Financial Analysts, Economists, HR People, Administrative People don't see those kinds of increases/bonuses in those places. Many of them work damn hard too. No one is crying for the attorneys because they took pay cuts. We need to scale down the pay of all of these overpaid people and put more equity into these places. How to do that - well, I don't know. Sorry.

I think you have it backwards. The lawyers can get several multiples of their government pay in private practice, meaning they take a pay cut to work for the government. The HR and Admin people in government often make several times what they would get in the private sector --that's where the salaries should be cut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The irony is that many of them are leisurely reading the newspaper or shooting the breeze for their handsome salaries and bonuses. Yep, I would love a job like a federal financial regulatory attorney too. What a racket!

Maybe you should go to law school, what' stopping you?