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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will the topped-out 15s please stop whining? We are well paid for public sector work, period. If you really think you would do so much better elsewhere, please go. 170k a year is a very nice salary. We do get a pension, social security, and access to one of the lowest-fee, well-managed 401ks out there. Inflation may hit us a bit, but at this salary, you have cushions. I’m a single parent who has no access to child support, and we are just fine. And no, I don’t live in the exurbs or eat ramen to survive, either. [/quote]

I could see for some of the people at Gs-15s have problem with this salary but most of the other professionals I see leave before it gets there. Working for Govt is not all about money, but also work-life balance, job security, retirement benefits, public service, mission, etc. [/quote]

Unfortunately that part of the equation has also been weakened.  Work-life balance at DOS has mostly been decimated (emails and demands for paper well into the evening and through the weekend), we contribute more and more to retirement (quite a lot for new folks), and neither congress, nor the White House, nor the public at large values public service (lot of vitriol directed at feds), and the mission has become fuzzy and burdened by ever increasing bureaucracy. Hi [/quote]

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