Human Resources positions in the Federal Government?

[Anonymous]

I work for one of the independent banking regulators. I am astonished at the salaries paid to these HR people . And the number of these folks- wow.

Why do these folks earn such high salaries? I mean I see salaries for many of these folks between $150,000 and $200,000. Are HR people rewarded like this in private industry?

Can anyone shed any light on the scam that is Human Resources in Federal agencies - particularly the banking agencies ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work for one of the independent banking regulators. I am astonished at the salaries paid to these HR people . And the number of these folks- wow.

Why do these folks earn such high salaries? I mean I see salaries for many of these folks between $150,000 and $200,000. Are HR people rewarded like this in private industry?

Can anyone shed any light on the scam that is Human Resources in Federal agencies - particularly the banking agencies ?

No, but DH used to be a fed, and the HR people were the absolute WORST! Totally overpaid and clueless. Seems like a cushy arragement.

[Anonymous]

At my financial agency most of the underlings in HR are contractors so only the higher paid ones are feds and they are usually in the program analyst series. I looked up a few of the HR people that I deal with and their salaries range from $70K for the younger/junior ones to $120K for the ones that have been around awhile.

[Anonymous]

I'm a fed, HR sucks. They are lazy and do not care that their actions have an actual impact on people's lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my financial agency most of the underlings in HR are contractors so only the higher paid ones are feds and they are usually in the program analyst series. I looked up a few of the HR people that I deal with and their salaries range from $70K for the younger/junior ones to $120K for the ones that have been around awhile.

This is definitely not my federal regulator. HR is full of overpaid, lazy, incompetent workers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my financial agency most of the underlings in HR are contractors so only the higher paid ones are feds and they are usually in the program analyst series. I looked up a few of the HR people that I deal with and their salaries range from $70K for the younger/junior ones to $120K for the ones that have been around awhile.

This is definitely not my federal regulator. HR is full of overpaid, lazy, incompetent workers.

I'm at the SEC. I didnt say these people were competent. Most are not, a few are decent. I looked up about 6 people that I have dealt with.

[Anonymous]

HR is awful at my agency.

[Anonymous]

HR is one of the overpaid federal jobs. Secretaries too. I know quite a few who make 85k+. My agency has about 1500 people and 60 HR staffers. That's an extremely high amount in my opinion!

[Anonymous]

HR at my agency is full of minority women with attitudes who are taken aback at the mere thought that they do some work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HR at my agency is full of minority women with attitudes who are taken aback at the mere thought that they do some work.

It's the only way we can fill the diversity quota at my work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:HR at my agency is full of minority women with attitudes who are taken aback at the mere thought that they do some work.

It's the only way we can fill the diversity quota at my work.

Sad, but true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At my financial agency most of the underlings in HR are contractors so only the higher paid ones are feds and they are usually in the program analyst series. I looked up a few of the HR people that I deal with and their salaries range from $70K for the younger/junior ones to $120K for the ones that have been around awhile.

This is definitely not my federal regulator. HR is full of overpaid, lazy, incompetent workers.

I'm at the SEC. I didnt say these people were competent. Most are not, a few are decent. I looked up about 6 people that I have dealt with.

NP. SEC is an utter disgrace. Getting a response on a simple issue take months and constant badgering. Multiple times I have had someone spend more time arguing that X was outside her job responsibilities (it clearly wasn't) than it would have taken to provide the three sentence form letter needed.

I've never noticed they were contractors and I don't know about salaries. But everyone at the agency is on the bumped up payscale, regardless of whether your job has anything to do with the securities industry and whether you would therefore (at least in theory) have elevated pay in the private sector.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At my financial agency most of the underlings in HR are contractors so only the higher paid ones are feds and they are usually in the program analyst series. I looked up a few of the HR people that I deal with and their salaries range from $70K for the younger/junior ones to $120K for the ones that have been around awhile.

This is definitely not my federal regulator. HR is full of overpaid, lazy, incompetent workers.

I'm at the SEC. I didnt say these people were competent. Most are not, a few are decent. I looked up about 6 people that I have dealt with.

NP. SEC is an utter disgrace. Getting a response on a simple issue take months and constant badgering. Multiple times I have had someone spend more time arguing that X was outside her job responsibilities (it clearly wasn't) than it would have taken to provide the three sentence form letter needed.

I've never noticed they were contractors and I don't know about salaries. But everyone at the agency is on the bumped up payscale, regardless of whether your job has anything to do with the securities industry and whether you would therefore (at least in theory) have elevated pay in the private sector.

PP here, yeah it's pretty bad. Have you ever talked to them on the phone? I truly think she struggled to string together a coherent sentence. I had one issue that this person said I had to send to a different inbox so I did. A few weeks went by and I followed up at that inbox and the same person e-mailed me back! Like seriously, you couldn't just answer my question the first time?

[Anonymous]

Our HR office is totally understaffed. The senior HR person is actually great, but everything takes forever because we can't hire enough people to help her out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our HR office is totally understaffed. The senior HR person is actually great, but everything takes forever because we can't hire enough people to help her out.

Really? That's the first I've ever heard of an HR office being understaffed. Normally they're swimming in people.