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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Work life balance cannot be stressed enough. I was a paralegal at a private firm and had many occasions where I was staying past 5 to deal with cases. Now? In the feds? 4:30 its a wrap.  No ifs, ands or buts about this. No more "Oh shit!, I need! calls" to deal with.[/quote]

[b]Yep, I'm a fed and I honestly couldn't begin to put a monetary worth on the value of being able to slam shut my laptop at 5:30 on the dot every day and not have to devote an ounce of mental real estate to work until 9 tomorrow, but if I could it would be very high. [/b] [/quote]

I'm a former Fed and if this had been my situation, I probably never would have left. But I was a litigator at a "prestigious" agency and would get emails constantly after leaving work; there was a strong push for face time on evenings/weekends in order to get "noticed", and worst of all, if you wanted to advance, you had to make sure to ingratiate yourself with the supervisors. Some of that was office-specific (I had previously been at a different office of the same agency and some of those things were not present) but on balance I don't work much harder in the private sector than I did as a Fed, and equally importantly, I don't have to deal with the awful nasty politics of my old office. [/quote]

Well that seems to be the choice you made to climb the career ladder. I'm sure I could advance faster if I chose to do that as well, but I value my free time far more than I value money or job titles.  If I were in that situation I'd do the exact same thing I'm doing now and if they told me I had to work evenings and weekends I'd say you'd better put that in writing and give me overtime/credit hours or piss off. [/quote]

Unfortunately it wasn’t as simple as that. I had friends who had mediocre performance reviews after their supervisors would make not so subtle comments about how they rarely saw them in the office after 5, or asked why they weren’t volunteering for various coordinator duties. Again, maybe my office was an outlier, but the politics and shit talking were beyond the pale. In the end it was a revolving door Fed office so maybe management felt it wasn’t worth improving the toxic politics of the office. [/quote]

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