You aren’t 13:02? You responded to my post about that. SES making less than GS15? How is that possible in Fed? |
No, there are several others, not just SEC. I'm not lucky, I'm a CFA with a decade of experience on Wall Street and a MS from MIT. I lost 2/3 of my income but for me it was totally worth it. |
No, I'm 13:02 and this is the first time I've been back since I posted. I did not write any of the responses to you. |
I know in DCUM land $100k isn't that great, but do you realize how much more $100k is than your median house hold income? Many federal jobs pay well over $100k, have stable benefits, a pension, and stability that will almost never go away if the economy has a downturn.
I mean yeah, we all wanna make $300k, but the number of people who make that much is extraordinarily low. |
I am the one that you responded to, so sorry. I realized later that you likely were thinking the same person wrote more than one of the posts. Agencies like SEC, FDIC, OCC, NCUA, CFPB, and the Fed (I think a few others also) have a totally different pay scale because they don’t work on appropriated funds. So, if I am never promoted again as a 13, I’ll make more than I’d have ever made as a 14 or 15 at my old agency. It’s called a “quasi-government” agency, but it’s a Competitive Service appointment. They also pay a higher share of benefits and match more of retirement contribution. |
Whatever helps you justify it. |
Justify what? A personal decision regarding one’s own career path and income? Not sure there is any reason for justification. |
Yeah but if everyond lives by "you do you" mindset, there wouldn't be DCUM. |
Good point. |
DP here, but you're incredibly hostile for someone with zero Google skills. Here's the SES pay scale. Note that Level V starts below higher step GS-15 pay. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/22Tables/exec/html/EX.aspx |
Wrong. All the financial regulators have non supervisory positions that pay at least as well as GS-15. Most of the banking agencies pay better than the SEC. And the DOJ has tons of nonsupervisory GS15s. |
DCUM is OBSESSED with financial regulators. Brass ring. Pretty hard to snag. |
I work at one and I'm in the field. However, they all have admin-like or support services that pay the same - HR, budget analyst, HR, admins, management analyst, IT support, security etc. and those might be easier to get. |
I’m the previous poster that wrote that I am in IT at one. I just got the job and started at the end of January, but I had been applying since 2017, and this job was the first one for which I was even referred past HR. I still don’t know how I got in. That said, agencies tend to treat support personnel like 2nd class, except IT and Contracts and Budget and HR are so highly desirable with Federal experience that they’re the easiest to move around….particularly IT, which has a lot of private sector competition, and Contracts, which is easily hired out to a Contractor position (being yelled at by Staff for 10 years doesn’t make many people want to stick with it, either). |
No way! Fed jobs are like realtors. Kind of like the last option for people. Stay with your current company! |