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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$160k a year is chump change?!?  Especially when you factor in a 40 hour work week and the benefits (leave, pension, health).  If you ask me, the people working 60+ hours a week in private sector and making $200k with no pension are the ones working like dogs.  [/quote]

While I agree with you, many 15s aren't making $160k a year. It takes a long time to climb the ladder. I'm a 15-2 making less than nearly all the employees I supervise, who have all been there much longer than me and are 14-10s. (I started with the agency as a 13 and was a 14-3 before promotion.) It will be another decade at least before I'm making the top amount.

With regard to OP's question, a lot depends if it's supervisory or not. If you join DOJ straight out of law school, you can be a nonsupervisory 15 in about 4 or 5 years, or around age 30. Also depends on the agency; my small agency mandates waiting periods between grade promotions and has very few nonsupervisory 15s, but also doesn't have many GS-15 supervisors either. I was 36 when I was promoted to a supervisory 15 position, and I'd been acting in the position for a couple years before official promotion. That seems to be fairly standard at my agency. The supervisory 15s get promoted somewhere between 35 and 40 and hang on to the positions for 5-10 years, which means anyone a little older or younger who missed out on the opportunity is unlikely to ever get it as long as they stay with us.[/quote]

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