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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would Republicans who believe in smaller government want to move government jobs out across the US? It’ll just make it harder when they inevitably want to slash those jobs. You’ll get Repubkican politicians pushing back at any RIFs of their constituents. [/quote]

You can do both-slash some and move most of the remaining out.[/quote]

Agree this is what will happen.

It's much more palatable politically to have federal employees spread across the country. They contribute to economic stability, they pay into state/local tax coffers and the argument will be made that being "local" they are more in tune with your average Americans than those who are DC-based and entrenched.

Not to mention the salary savings - many jobs that are GS-12+ in DC could easily be reclassified to the GS-9 level elsewhere, and still be considered a very good wage, even for supervisory positions.  [/quote]

I’m not following the second paragraph- why would a GS-12 position be reclassified to a GS-9?  Locality pay would be less in most other metro areas, but that’s different than reclassifying positions to a lower grade. [/quote]

Why reclassify to lower grade? Simply put - because they can. Just like they can reclassify grades to be higher. In our area, the biggest fed office is Social Security. The supervisor there is a GS-9 who oversees about a dozen employees. They told me they desperately need more people to do the work in their office, but can't get positions. [/quote]

That’s interesting- my aunt recently retired from SSA as an 11, and was not a supervisor.  Not in this area, rust belt city. I’m surprised a GS-9 would be a supervisory position.  [/quote]

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