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[quote=Anonymous]The attorney decision writer job at SSA is a GS 9-11-12 ladder in the hearing offices. GS-9 would be law clerk, GS-11 a new attorney, and GS-12 an experienced attorney. You typically start as a GS-11 and are promoted to GS-12 after a year. Promotion potential is limited. You would need to compete for a GS-13 as a senior attorney advisor or group supervisor, but those positions are relatively rare. You might be able to become a hearing office director (HOD) at GS-14 one day. Still, the writer job is a foot in the door to the federal government and you might be able to transfer to another federal agency after a couple of years there. SSA hires many new attorneys, such as recent law school graduates, but it also hires experienced attorneys for the writer job, such as those wanting work-life balance.

There is the potential to one day become an Administrative Law Judge at the agency and the salary would be comparable to a GS-15, but you’d likely need a background in litigation to make that happen. Attorneys with litigation experience can join SSA as a decision writer to gain knowledge of agency culture and administrative law that might be helpful in becoming a judge, but that is a long shot and I wouldn’t take the job with that in mind.

There are other federal decision writer jobs that have more promotion potential (GS-13, GS-14) where you are still a writer such as the BVA.
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