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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CNA is also top-heavy...worthless.[/quote]

I love how this one (I assume) disgruntled ex-CNAer periodically tries to jump into the middle of the RAND/Mitre bashing.

“Guuuys! Come on! CNA sucks too!”

“Who?”[/quote]

Are you a CNA bootlicker? Current IPR VP making over $250k/year, with high bonuses, can't market IPR work as a former FED even after your restrictions have expired?

The FFRDC portion is safe/sound for now as the Navy/Marine Corps requested changes at the FFRDC. IPR still has a high overhead rate.[/quote]

Salaries are here in case you were wondering:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/541558882
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RAND is hiring for a "Salesforce Business Analyst Administrator" (whatever that means) who may earn more than a "Research Lead - AI Cyber Testing & Evaluation" Totally misplaced priorities.
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The salary range for the research lead is $137,000 - $246,600 and $120,900 - $180,300 for the Salesforce role. "May" is doing a lot of work there. [/quote]

That pay range for merely running a salesforce database seems really high. Doubt your sponsors want to pay for that bloat.[/quote]

I'm not at RAND. I think RAND has much bigger problems than this. But that's a normal salary range for the kind of moderately skilled technical job that no one wants to do because you're locked into a particular vendor, you're a cost center, it's boring, and there's no prestige in it. One of the [b]consequences of GRT running RAND has been unwillingness to pay enough for non-PhD roles,[/b] not understanding that RAND can get a deal on researchers but no one is excited about coming to RAND to do basically anything else.[/quote]

You do realize that Rand sells expert labor, not Salesforce admin support?
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Still there, huh?[/quote]

As a sponsor, I find these salaries surprising, as well as their defense on here.
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You find the pay range for the Salesforce person surprising? Why? Do you often hire for that skill set? [/quote]

Because the basic pay range for an SES is 150k to 225k.
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Do you think that they're competing for labor? Do you think that contractor salaries should be pegged to SES salaries? Is this the same argument as "no one should make more than a Senator"? If RAND isn't doing a good job for you--and I totally believe they aren't--then that's the problem, and it wouldn't be better if they paid less. [/quote]

I am a different poster.

Our FFRDC is department-owned, not RAND's. RAND just hosts it. We must question why costs appear excessive relative to output, particularly a cost like a Salesforce admin making a SES-level salary. Do CNA and IDA pay similar salaries for these positions? I doubt it. The value added to our FFRDC by this role is questionable and in my opinion warrants scrutiny to ensure the entity hosting our FFRDC is being good stewards of taxpayer money.
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It was $120-$180k. In DC, that's a GS-12 step 7 to a GS-15 step 3. A huge number of contractors make somewhere within that salary range including from various FFRDCs, as do a huge number of feds. It is bizarre to call that an "SES-level salary."

If the value RAND is adding is questionable, it should be easy to make that case by pointing to the research they are delivering to you.[/quote]

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