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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way the "feds" reply on this listserv make me cringe. They sound so entitled and self righteous. They don't need to explain to anyone what they do, but making $225K is totally OK. Median [b]household[/b] income in 2014 was $51,939. That includes double income households.

I'm not saying everyone has to make $52K or even twice that $104K, I'm saying that more than 50% of Americans are paying taxes based on salaries of $52k...[/quote]

I am not the PP making $225k but it is not as simple as saying - "You.  Attorney working in the govt making $225.  You should be making $52.  We will be adjusting for that." and expect the employee to stay in the job.  If you try to recruit for that job and you want someone with knowledge of the area, you are either going to be looking in the banking industry or biglaw so you need to pick a salary where you can attract qualified people.  Typically, fed jobs offer less but have more flexibility or some experience to offset the salary decrease.

There are feds with Phds working at NASA, NIH, etc. and you can't expect to attract someone with $25/hour and live in the DC area (which is close to what I have seen some nannies with no education make in this area).

I am not a fed but I have been looking at the postings of non-fed salaries and they seem to be around $100k so not sure why similarly educated folks should make substantially less because they work for the government.  If you look at the median income of the DC are (just googled), it is $90 so folks are making around that much.  The $225k was an anomaly - I don't think I saw another fed post over $125 (just a gut feeling - not tallying up the pages to write this post). 
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